Issue #4628 has been updated by Rob McBroom.
I encountered this myself a couple of weeks ago (with 0.25.5). Here’s what I think is going on. (Hopefully it will allow the devs to track it down faster.) If Puppet encounters an error while trying to do something (add a package, file, etc.), it will report the error. If Puppet encounters an error while getting ready to run (parsing templates, etc.), it never tries to do anything, and therefore decides there’s nothing to report. Obviously, it would be nice to have “failed to run at all” type errors in the report as well as the “failed while running” type. ---------------------------------------- Bug #4628: Puppet does not include errors in reports http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4628 Author: Kenneth Holter Status: Unreviewed Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: Affected version: 0.25.4 Keywords: puppet reports Branch: I've set up puppetmaster and a puppet client, both version 0.25.4. The client is set up to report back to the master (i.e. "report = true" in puppet.conf on the client). The master directs report to both "puppet_dashboard" and "store". The issue seems to be that when I trigger an error on the client, this error is not included in the report. I've attached two files to illustrate the problem: The file "output-from-client.txt" shows the client side error message, while the file "local-report.txt" shows the corresponding report. As one can see, there is no error mentioned in the report. To me this seems like a bug. Can this be confirmed? I have not yet tested wether other error are reported back to the server. Regards, Kenneth -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
