Puppet users - May 2012 - cannot generate tempfile `/tmp/puppet.30616.9'

I have three (out of 90) machines with the error: cannot generate
tempfile `/tmp/puppet.30616.9''

I have plenty of disk and plenty of inodes.

My temp directory is permissioned:  drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 20480
2012-05-24 01:33 /tmp

I get these for two puppet items on each row.

The daemon is not running.  I run it manually using /usr/sbin/puppetd
--verbose --no-daemonize --onetime --server=xxx --fqdn=yyy

Are there any suggestions?

Ed G

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This error is due to the attributes which are applied to the paticular file.

Check lsattr <file name> & remove the chattr attribute then run puppet
again....

mac


On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Ed Greenberg
<greenberg.ed@gmail.com>wrote:
> I have three (out of 90) machines with the error: cannot generate
> tempfile `/tmp/puppet.30616.9''
>
> I have plenty of disk and plenty of inodes.
>
> My temp directory is permissioned:  drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 20480
> 2012-05-24 01:33 /tmp
>
> I get these for two puppet items on each row.
>
> The daemon is not running.  I run it manually using /usr/sbin/puppetd
> --verbose --no-daemonize --onetime --server=xxx --fqdn=yyy
>
> Are there any suggestions?
>
> Ed G
>
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On May 27, 9:30 am, Mukul Malhotra <smilemukul2...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> This error is due to the attributes which are applied to the paticular
file.
>
> Check lsattr <file name> & remove the chattr attribute then run
puppet
> again....

My guess would be that the filesystem containing /tmp is mounted read-
only.  The kernel could put it in that state if it detected serious
filesystem errors, or mount options could be just plain
misconfigured.  I have seen this sort of thing happen when a disk goes
bad.

Less likely, if SELinux is running in enforcing mode then it could be
denying access.  That would be pretty strange for the /tmp directory,
but if your security policy were flawed or your disk labeling wrong
then it could happen.


John

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