Hello, Recently 3 puppet agents instances (on 3 different servers yet with quasi-similar configurations) started running at 100% on one CPU and thus they cannot listen to the master anymore. Nothing appears to be wrong in the logs : no fail or execution problems. Starting the agent like so : puppet agent --debug --verbose -t, I can see that puppet runs fine until some command that executes "chown ..." and then no more debug/log. Personally I don't think the problem comes from "chown"... With strace, I can see that the puppet agent reads the file /var/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet.rb, closes it and then reopens it and recloses again in infinite loop (causes the 100% CPU). I've tried the solution of executing date -s "`date`" (solution that I've seen in threads with similar problem", also I reinstalled puppet (with purge) and ruby but no change. Also I'm running ruby1.8 and puppet2.7.22 but I don't want to update those packages. The servers are running Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS Any help is welcomed :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/7e08b19a-796c-4546-9c52-c1bb97d97f92%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.