similar to: Could not request certificate: undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass

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 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

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 - -

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

I upgrade our infrastructure (mostly RHEL5, some RHEL6) from 3.1 to puppet-3.2.1-1.el5. Ruby sits at ruby-1.8.7.370-1.el5. I ran some tests and everything seemed good so I pushed it out. Since then, all my puppet clients are failing with this: Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: undefined method `[]'' for nil:NilClass at

I am getting this error on all my hosts, I can''t tell that it''s causing a problem, everything seems to be working fine. Fri May 06 12:52:16 -0700 2011 /Stage[main]// Resources[ssh_authorized_key] (err): Failed to generate additional resources using ''generate'': undefined method `[]'' for nil:NilClass We are using user and group purging for all uids/gids

I posted this earlier on IRC, but it didn''t seem anyone was active: <mozillaman>Hey all! <mozillaman>Quick question for you :) <mozillaman>I installed puppet according to the directions on the site and got this: sudo /usr/bin/puppetmasterd --nonodes undefined method `retrieve'' for nil:NilClass <mozillaman>Anyone have any ideas? Any help would be

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

I''m not really sure the problem is a Plugin problem!! Note than a puppet client was installed, i change the setting of ip/hosname and try to re inscription the node to puppetmaster. I would like to understand what happen. The errors/warnings messages are not very easy to understand and sometime i''m lost. thank you for you advice. Eric Puppet version: 0.25.4-2ubuntu6

Using 1.0.4 release on Solaris 10 with Ruby 1.8.7. Starting the server in production mode works fine until I request a page from the web browser then I get the following errors on the console. I''m running as user puppet (have also tried as user root but same output). All files are owned by user/group puppet/puppet. I have dropped and recreated the database multiple times just to see if

Dear all, I have this line: <% $c_repo.split('','').each_with_index do |repo, i| %> in one of my template files and on the target node I''m getting this error: err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Failed to parse template zmfs/zmfs_prob.erb: private method `split'' called for nil:NilClass Any idea what am I missing?

Hi I''m trying puppet for the first time and attempting to get it working in Amazon EC2 with Ubuntu 10.04 using the default puppet 0.25.4-2ubuntu4, I''ve read the ''Pulling Strings'' book and tried following various tutorials found on the net to set up it but each time I get as far as signing the certificate before getting this error.... info: Caching certificate

Hello, I am installing Puppet Enterprise agent (puppet-enterprise-1.2.1- solaris-10-sparc) on a Solaris 10 64bit SPARC system. When I view the logs for the agent I see: puppet-agent[14680]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Could not run Puppet configuration client: Could not retrieve local facts: private method `split'' called for nil:NilClass The client successfully initiates a cert exchange

I''m following the Depot tutorial in the Rails book, and have just hit a wall. As instructed by the tutorial, I added the following code to the Product model: protected def validate errors.add(:price, "should be positive") unless price > 0.0 end When I attempt to add a new product, I''m getting an error: undefined method `>'' for nil:NilClass

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

I''ve been confused by this question for near two days ...my puppet master version is 2.7.9-1.el6 and client versiong is 2.6.16-2.el5. This is what my command lines shows: *[root@agent1 ~]# puppet agent --server=edward --test --waitforce 30* info: Creating a new SSL key for agent1 warning: peer certificate won''t be verified in this SSL session info: Caching certificate for ca

Hi, I''ve setup the puppetmaster to start 5 processes each listening on a different port, with an Apache server in front. This works fine for existing clients, however when I try to add a new client (ie. a newly installed machine with no previous puppet configuration) I get this error: err: Could not request certificate: sslv3 alert handshake failure error Any ideas what''s

Hi All: For certain key terms I always get this error; I had to rebuild the indexes then it works for a while then again it is gone. here is the message ActionView::TemplateError (undefined method `each'' for nil:NilClass) on line #4 /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_view/base.rb:316:in `compile_and_render_template''

why would I be getting this error after submitting my form? NoMethodError in EchantillonsController#create undefined method `call'' for nil:NilClass This is my create method in the controller: def create @echantillon = Echantillon.new(params[:echantillon]) @echantillon.set_eros_values respond_to do |format| if @echantillon.save if