Issue #11111 has been updated by Daniel Pittman.
Steve Shipway wrote: > Further tests show this happens when the /etc/shadow file ends without a > final \n (at least, the problem went away when I added one), though this > happens when the normal tools are used to add a new user. Not sure why it > should cause puppet to this these users exist. Also, adding a new user > locally may well end up in the same situation again. Ah. That probably reveals the cause of the trouble: you had a corrupt database file, which presumably lead to NSS returning the user from `getpwent` or equivalent, but the tool that puppet invokes failing to delete the entry. That would lead to exactly this pattern of failure. Out of curiosity, were you running a long-running puppet daemon there, or was this exiting and starting a new puppet process every run where that problem happened? ---------------------------------------- Bug #11111: Puppet incorrectly thinks user exists when it does not https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11111 Author: Steve Shipway Status: Unreviewed Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: agent Target version: Affected Puppet version: 2.7.6 Keywords: Branch: I have a normal resource definition to ensure the user 'steves' does not exist. On one puppet client, even though the user definitely does not exist, puppet still tries to remove it giving this error: change from present to absent failed: Could not delete user steves: Execution of '/usr/sbin/userdel steves' returned 6: userdel: user steves does not exist user { steves: ensure=>absent; } Why is the puppet agent still trying to delete the user when it definitely is not there? I have checked /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd and /etc/group and it is not mentioned in any of them. This also affects another user, but not every one! I have a list of about six that are deleted if found on all hosts, but on this host only two of them result in this error. Puppet agent is running on Linux RHEL5 32bit. -- 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.
