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Hi all I started researching on puppet and decided I''ll try it out on Vmware Workstation using Ubuntu 10.04. So I''m trying to do the simplest puppet install pattern as outlined in http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Simplest_Puppet_Install_Pattern. For now, I''m trying to test puppetd and puppetmasterd on the same machine. I start puppetmaster and

We are getting this frustrating error on all of our servers after restarting the puppet server. Can''t seem to get rid of it no matter what. The following pops up in /var/log/messages after trying to start puppetd: Jun 8 10:59:04 svn001 puppetd[92558]: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run Jun 8 10:59:18 svn001 puppetd[92597]: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: undefined

Hi list, I am trying to get a puppet certificate on a new client but I get error: err: Could not request certificate: undefined method `closed?'' for nil:NilClass I googled and found that it had something to do with reverse DNS lookup, the client is behind a NAT firewall so I assume a reverse lookup will fail. Can I bypass this somehow? Puppet version on master and client is 0.25.4

Hi everyone, I''ve been using templates to set up some configuration files, but the templates don''t always get rewritten when I would like, so I thought I''d bring it up to see if anyone has any insight. Here''s an example template, used for setting up a yum repository. The password and IP address are setup using an out of band mechanism, and are not always

Hi, I had a working puppet setup using version 0.22 until the ruby security patch bit me. I tried upgrading server and clients to 0.24.1 however my old manifests don''t seem to work anymore. When I run puppetd on the client I see lots of messages like: err: //Node[waterbuck]/yumupdater/Remotefile[/etc/cron.hourly/yumupdater]/File[/etc/cron.hourly/yumupdater]/ensure: change from absent

Our puppetmaster runs 0.24.8 on Ubuntu 9.10. Our clients are either Ubuntu 9.10 or Ubuntu 8.04. We''ve just brought up our first Ubuntu 10.04 machine. This machine installs puppetd 0.25.4. The Ubuntu 10.04 machine can''t seem to present it''s certificate request properly. In my masterhttp.log, I see [2010-10-20 13:09:06] 174-143-141-55.static.cloud-ips.com - -

Fedora Core 7 has just updated their Ruby package (was 1.8.6.36-3.fc7, is now 1.8.6.110-3.fc7), and the upgrade broke my Puppet installation, and there was a similar report from someone else. Communications between the puppetmasterd and the puppetd running on the same host broke down with the message: Could not retrieve configuration: Certificates were not trusted: hostname not match with

Hi, installing puppet at my first site was quite easy (not w/o problems, but still). At the second site, I''ve run into something more serious. First things first - I install puppetmaster on existing server, used to keep LDAP db (my puppetmaster DOES NOT use LDAP, it just tries to coexist on the same machine). The thing is, I need to puppet this baby, so I''m running into a

I updated to 0.22.3-1 from the dlutter repo (CentOS 4.4) and I''m still having trouble adding new nodes as others saw from the previous version, though I believe the error is different now. The procedure I used was: <client> /etc/init.d/puppet once -v <server> /usr/sbin/puppetca --sign nodename <client> /etc/init.d/puppet once -v This used to work for new nodes, now I

Hi, I have just successfully configured Puppet to run with Mongrel, and would like to update the documentation with what I''ve learned. However, since I''m not an expert with these things, I thought I''d share with the list before updating the wiki. So here''s what I''d change: + Remove this picture:

Hello, I have puppet setup on 8 nodes with 1 puppetmaster server. So far 7 of the 8 nodes have performed flawlessly, 1 is currently failing with the following error: err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: undefined method `fact_merge'' for nil:NilClass warning: Not using cache on failed catalog err: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run I have

I install puppet as part of a Fedora and CentOS kickstart install and this use to provide a nicely configured client immediately after the first reboot from the kickstart completion. However with 0.22.3 i now see the following error on puppets 1st run, as a result the client is not configured. The problem is easily rectified by connecting to each client and restarting puppet. I have also

Hi all. I am testing 0.25.4 to upgrade from 0.23.2. In testing, I found two strange messages on 0.25.4 which I have never found on 0.24.3. So could you tell me what these messages mean and how to fix them. [Environment] Puppetmasterd -version : 0.25.4 -OS : Solaris10 10/09 Puppetd -version : same as Puppetmasterd -OS : same as Puppetmasterd [Strange messages] 1.When Puppetd

I''m getting this error message quite often on the puppet clients. I don''t know what it means. Restarting puppet often helps and the messages will go away, but suddenly it will come back again. Any thoughts? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to

Ok, given the statement on the web page about unlesssystemuser under Resources ( http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/documentation/typedocs.html#resources), I assume that users can be purged. However, when I attempt to do this with resources { user: purge => true, noop => true } and what I get is: err: Found a bug: private method ''split'' called for nil:NilClass.

Hi all, I''m new to puppet and I can''t seem to figure out how to get rid of this error on the client or to get the recursive copy of files to the client: err: //dev_oracle_dev_tools::install/File[/tmp/oracle_dev_tools]: Failed to generate additional resources using ''eval_generate'': Error 400 on SERVER: private method `gsub'' called for nil:NilClass My

I turned on reporting the other day and I''m seeing alot of these when puppet runs. Especially during times when nothing is going on (middle of the night etc) Tue Dec 11 12:34:48 -0500 2007 //base/puppet/puppet::client/Service[puppet]/ensure (notice): ensure changed ''stopped'' to ''running'' It''s also quite odd that puppet when it runs it thinks

Hi I''m having the following problem and tried already several workarounds, as well benp- tried to help me on irc. I copied the ntp modul from DavidS repo and adapted it in the Service part to run as well under openbsd. Which was just adding some binary if openbsd is the operatingsystem. However then I wanted to run it as well on a gentoo system (on centos, debian and openbsd it was

I''m going through DHH''s Agile Web Development with Rails for Rails 3.1. In chapter 14 they create a Users sign-in model/view/controller using the has_secure_password method. My user.rb file looks like this class User < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :name, :password_digest, :password, :password_confirmation validates :name, presence: true, uniqueness:

Hello, I''m a newbie. I need help resolving this issue. I recently added a pdf to the newsletter admin section of the website and now I can no longer view page 2 of the list of pdf''s. Nor can I login to see the newsletters as a student. I''m using Ruby 1.9.3, Rails 3.2.1. Here''s the information from the log file. ActionView::Template::Error (undefined