Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Could not retrieve metadata

Felix Frank
Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:56:05 -0000

Hi,

On 11/21/2011 08:38 PM, Dmitry wrote:
> Example:
>
> Nov 21 22:56:35 comp01 puppet-agent[46828]: (/Stage[main]/Bsd/File[/
> etc/inetd.conf]) Could not evaluate: end of file reached Could not
> retrieve file metadata for puppet:///modules/bsd/etc/inetd.conf: end
> of file reached at /usr/local/etc/puppet/modules/bsd/manifests/init.pp:
> 80
>
> This messages appear for random clients for random lines in init.pp.

any other funny effects visible on your master at those times?
I/O errors or somesuch?

It would appear that your init.pp cannot be read properly or somesuch.

Are there any background processes (e.g. automatic svn updates or
similar) that could be responsible for disrupting the master''s file
operations on the manifest?