Puppet users - Feb 2011 - Could not request certificate: undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass'

Hi,

I installed puppet 0.25.4 on ubuntu 10.04. It was ok until puppet
client and server were intalled. But when I tried to execute the
following command, the error, "Could not request certificate:
undefined method `closed?'' for nil:NilClass''", occurred.

sudo puppetd --test --verbose --server SERVER_NAME

Could anyone adivse me?

Thanks.

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On 02/21/2011 05:39 AM, 暁華 管 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed puppet 0.25.4 on ubuntu 10.04. It was ok until puppet
> client and server were intalled. But when I tried to execute the
> following command, the error, "Could not request certificate:
> undefined method `closed?'' for nil:NilClass''",
occurred.
> 
> sudo puppetd --test --verbose --server SERVER_NAME
> 
> Could anyone adivse me?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
Hi,

have you tried the --waitforcert parameter?

Also, I''ll take the liberty and paste Patrick''s default reply
to this
problem:

This error is a bug that is fixes in later versions of puppet.  It
means, something went wrong (this might be your fault) and the cleanup
code failed (this part isn''t your fault).

More information at:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3101

Regards,
Felix

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On 21 Feb 2011, at 15:49, Felix Frank wrote:
> On 02/21/2011 05:39 AM, 暁華 管 wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I installed puppet 0.25.4 on ubuntu 10.04. It was ok until puppet
>> client and server were intalled. But when I tried to execute the
>> following command, the error, "Could not request certificate:
>> undefined method `closed?'' for nil:NilClass''",
occurred.
>> 
>> sudo puppetd --test --verbose --server SERVER_NAME
>> 
>> Could anyone adivse me?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> have you tried the --waitforcert parameter?
> 
> Also, I''ll take the liberty and paste Patrick''s default
reply to this
> problem:
> 
> This error is a bug that is fixes in later versions of puppet.  It
> means, something went wrong (this might be your fault) and the cleanup
> code failed (this part isn''t your fault).
> 
> More information at:
> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3101
> 
> Regards,
> Felix
While Patrick''s default reply is perfectly true and upgrading will
probably fix this it isn''t helpful if for some reason you need to run
standard 10.04 LTS packages from the main repository and are therefore stuck on
Puppet 0.25.4

When I had the same error I found that it was a problem with my client finding
the master.

I assume SERVER_NAME is the server''s fqdn similar to
myserver.domain.com ?
Can you ping SERVER_NAME from the client?
Is there a firewall between the client and server, if so is port 8140 open?
(assuming you are using the default)

Try with --waitforcert as Felix suggests with...

sudo puppetd --server myserver.domain.com --waitforcert 60 --test

Cheers

Paul

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On Feb 22, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Paul Willis wrote:
> On 21 Feb 2011, at 15:49, Felix Frank wrote:
> 
>> On 02/21/2011 05:39 AM, 暁華 管 wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I installed puppet 0.25.4 on ubuntu 10.04. It was ok until puppet
>>> client and server were intalled. But when I tried to execute the
>>> following command, the error, "Could not request certificate:
>>> undefined method `closed?'' for
nil:NilClass''", occurred.
>>> 
>>> sudo puppetd --test --verbose --server SERVER_NAME
>>> 
>>> Could anyone adivse me?
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> have you tried the --waitforcert parameter?
>> 
>> Also, I''ll take the liberty and paste Patrick''s
default reply to this
>> problem:
>> 
>> This error is a bug that is fixes in later versions of puppet.  It
>> means, something went wrong (this might be your fault) and the cleanup
>> code failed (this part isn''t your fault).
>> 
>> More information at:
>> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3101
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Felix
> 
> While Patrick''s default reply is perfectly true and upgrading will
probably fix this it isn''t helpful if for some reason you need to run
standard 10.04 LTS packages from the main repository and are therefore stuck on
Puppet 0.25.4
> 
> When I had the same error I found that it was a problem with my client
finding the master.
> 
> I assume SERVER_NAME is the server''s fqdn similar to
myserver.domain.com ?
> Can you ping SERVER_NAME from the client?
> Is there a firewall between the client and server, if so is port 8140 open?
(assuming you are using the default)
> 
> Try with --waitforcert as Felix suggests with...
> 
> sudo puppetd --server myserver.domain.com --waitforcert 60 --test
The problem is, that error message can mean almost anything is wrong.  Until we
get the real error message, all we can do is stumble in the dark.

At the bottom of the bugtracker page is a workaround.  You can change the puppet
monkey_patches.rb file on your install and that will cause you to get the right
error messages.

The diff is located at
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/repository/revisions/ae0b0bf23e418e8c6665e9dc135148b78bdbd913/diff/lib/puppet/util/monkey_patches.rb

The file you need to change is at
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/util/monkey_patches.rb



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Thank you, Felix. I will try.

On 2月22日, 午前12:49, Felix Frank <felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de>
wrote:
> On 02/21/2011 05:39 AM, 暁華 管 wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I installed puppet 0.25.4 on ubuntu 10.04. It was ok until puppet
> > client and server were intalled. But when I tried to execute the
> > following command, the error, "Could not request certificate:
> > undefined method `closed?'' for nil:NilClass''",
occurred.
>
> > sudo puppetd --test --verbose --server SERVER_NAME
>
> > Could anyone adivse me?
>
> > Thanks.
>
> Hi,
>
> have you tried the --waitforcert parameter?
>
> Also, I''ll take the liberty and paste Patrick''s default
reply to this
> problem:
>
> This error is a bug that is fixes in later versions of puppet.  It
> means, something went wrong (this might be your fault) and the cleanup
> code failed (this part isn''t your fault).
>
> More information at:http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3101
>
> Regards,
> Felix
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