Puppet users - May 2011 - Could not retrieve metadata - 2.6.7 / RHEL4 / remote site

Hi,

I''ve got a 2.6.7 server and client setup running pretty nicely in a
single
site on a few rhel5 and 6 boxes, and today branched out with a RHEL4 node on
a remote site. This was installing 2.6.7 (and facter 1.5.8) from source due
to the lack of el4 rpms (el5''s from yum.puppetlabs.com on all other
RHEL
boxes so far), with oldish official ruby 1.8.1 el4 rpms. On this new node
I''m getting about a 30-40% failure rate in terms of runs, with errors
in retrieving metadata:

Mon May 09 22:16:12 +0100 2011
/Stage[main]/Nss-ldap/File[/etc/nsswitch.conf] (err): Could not evaluate:
 Could not retrieve file metadata for
puppet:///modules/nss-ldap/nsswitch.conf:  at
/etc/puppet/modules/nss-ldap/manifests/init.pp:37

This happens on various different modules, but always the same error, trying
to get a file for a source reference. I''m aware there are a few new
variables I''ve thrown in, but the WAN connectivity seems to be fine, no
packet loss or anything, and also as these errors are reported on the server
and client, it''s not like it''s actually losing connection with
the puppet
server. Does this intermittent error ring any bells? With tagmail reports
telling us about this, it''s not really ignorable for us.

Thanks

Chris

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