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Hi All, In my set-up, I''ve got a cron job that triggers a Puppet run every 20 minutes. I''ve found that on approximately 13 nodes (out of 166), puppetd just hangs. I have to go in, kill the process, remove /var/lib/puppet/state/puppetdlock, and run puppet again and then it''s fine. After a while, it just hangs again so I have to go in, kill the process, etc. Any ideas?

OS: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE Puppet: 0.22.4 OS: CentOS 5.0 Puppet: 0.23.2 Is it currently not possible for puppetd to upgrade itself (0.22.4 -> 0.23.2)? I tried it, and when puppetd attempted to restart itself (using the init provider), it failed to start back up. Perhaps the init provider needs to close all file handles before executing the rc.d scripts? Additionally, I had puppetd update its

I''ve got the following class that runs if I activate the repo in /etc/yum.conf. If I run "puppetd -t" from the command line it will restart puppetd fine. If I let the class run on it''s own as a deamon puppetd does not restart. The puppetmaster on the other hand does restart using either method. I ran the client in "--debug" but that doesn''t seem to

Hi guys, Unlike what it says in the documentation and the --help output, I can''t seem to get puppetd to use the --server setting. The only way I can get puppetd to work is to include a ''puppet'' alias to the ip of the machine I''m running puppetmasterd on in my hosts file. The strange thing though, is that the logs of my puppetmaster show that it *is* getting

Hi, I have a lot of systems where the puppetd doesn''t do anything .. When I test with puppetd -tv, it s running well, but when it is started as deamon th process do nothing :( How can I debug this ? Vincent May 29 10:07:56 puppetd[6160]: Reopening log files May 29 10:07:56 puppetd[6160]: Starting Puppet client version 0.24.8 May 29 10:07:56 puppet: puppetd startup succeeded May 29

On the Configuration refrence page the listen setting is descriped thusly: listen Whether puppetd should listen for connections. If this is true, then by default only the runner server is started, which allows remote authorized and authenticated nodes to connect and trigger puppetd runs. The question is when listen is set to true, does puppetd only listen for remote calls or will it listen for

Hi, From looking at the puppetd --help, there is not currently (at 0.22.4) a method of specifying tags in the puppetd.conf. I was hoping to use this for the following reason: Currently, I use ''noop = true'' in my puppetd.conf, and run ''puppetd --no-noop {tags}'' to install the configurations that I am happy with. This is because I''m currently

If you install puppet from the ubuntu 9.04 repositories (apt-get install puppet) it sets up puppet differently than the gem. The differences are obvious from the /etc/puppet/puppet.conf which looks like this [main] logdir=/var/log/puppet vardir=/var/lib/puppet ssldir=/var/lib/puppet/ssl rundir=/var/run/puppet factpath=$vardir/lib/facter pluginsync=true [puppetmasterd]

I''m having this issue where "puppetd -v -o" hangs (won''t return my prompt) when starting a daemon I wrote. If puppetd is running as a daemon a zombie process is created each time puppetd tries to start my daemon. Puppet detects when the daemon is down and starts it just fine. I''m using version 0.22.3 on RHEL 5. Here''s the class. I''ve

I configured my rsync daemon to be restarted when the rsyncd configuration file changes. When the rsync daemon gets restarted by puppet, it listens on the same port puppetd does, so running puppetd again results in an error. The init script for rsync is small and can not be changed from puppet (all variables are declared within the init script and it only searches for the path where the rsync

This feels like a FAQ and sorry if it is, I failed to find an answer. I''d like some advice on handling backward compatibility between puppetd and puppetmaster. My puppetmaster is at v0.24.5 using Debian Lenny packages. I tried to bring up a puppetd client v0.25.4 (Ubuntu 10.04 packages) but failed to have it download the puppetmaster''s certificate. The puppetd client seemed

So I have been trying to run puppet once in my kickstart %post scripts but every time it detaches and daemonizes even though I have explicitly stated otherwise. Am I missing something? # rpm -q puppet puppet-0.24.8-1 # /usr/sbin/puppetd --onetime --no-daemonize --verbose --debug debug: Creating default schedules debug: Failed to load library ''shadow'' for feature

Guys, I seriously could not find this topic in the documentation. What do you do when you need to force puppetd hosts get the new settings from puppetmasterd? What I found was only sending USR1 signal to the client process in order to make it refresh its configuration from the master. But I find it a bit inconvenient for a large amount of hosts. There is also puppetrun which, if I understand

Hi all, I am using Puppet to execute an Expect script (http://expect.sourceforge.net) on a client. The Puppet recipe, test.pp, is: exec { ''/root/test.exp'': command => ''/root/test.exp'', logoutput => true } The recipe runs correctly when run using ''puppet --debug --verbose test.pp'': debug: /Stage[main]//Exec[/root/test.exp]:

While running puppetd on a linux client I get the following, the actual spot that the segfault happens varies, but it always happens. This is on ubuntu with the stock apt ruby1.8.4 package. Puppet also installed from apt. Puppet version 0.18.4 It seems very likely that this isnt a bug in puppet per se, but it is tickling a yaml bug (regardless of where it fails, it is always yaml). But I

So when puppetd crashes/whatever, and a pid file is left behind, SMF in Solaris will try restarting puppet, but fail. And then it sits there restarting it forever. I''m not sure if I can adjust the flap detection in SMF.. it isn''t disabling the service for "restarting too quickly" because it takes so long to start. Probably because I''m NFS-mounting ruby. The

Hello... What is the last version of puppet that will work with ruby version 1.6.8? I have a few RHEL 3 machines I would like to run puppetd (only the client, not puppetmaster). They will be updated to RHEL 5 fairly soon, so I don''t want to spend a lot of time trying to get a more recent version of ruby on them. thanks /me buys Luke a beer for all his help :) I now have

(I know more questions... :-)) I know the default for puppetd is to check puppetmasterd every half hour, but my question does each puppetd check at the same time? Or does it depend when puppetd is started or like a cronjob does it run at the 1/2 hour and hour mark? Is there some randomness to the times they run? My point is if they all run at the same time then if you have a large amount of

Hi, When I start puppetd on my client machine I get this message in /var/ log/messages: Parsing /etc/puppet/puppet.conf reopening log files could not request certificate; retrieved certificate does not match private key; Please remove certificate from server and regenerate it with current key Could not retrieve catalog from remote server Using cached catalog Could not retrieve catalog

hi, i''m trying to set up my puppetmaster infrastructure with multiple puppetservers behind load balancers in each of our datacenters. i''m using 0.24.6. i''ve read the howto on puppet scalability, and i think i''ve got the ssl config working correct, but i''m noticing that when puppetd is used to build a puppetmaster, some of the files in $vardir/ ssl