Issue #11111 has been updated by Steve Shipway.
The problem occurs with both a long-running daemon, and if I run from the command line (puppet agent -t). I've tried restarting the daemon a few times, too, though that doesn't fix it. The problem is not that the user exists and puppet is unable to delete it, but more that the user DOESNT exist, and puppet THINKS it does, so tries to delete it (and fails because it doesnt exist...) The 'steves' user doesn't exist anywhere that I can see, and all the OS commands (adduser, deluser, usermod etc) all agree the file is fine and the user doesnt exist. I would not count this as a corrupt file. However puppet seems to think that it does, but only when there is no terminating newline in the file. Since the passwd file is only manipulated by OS tools this could well happen other times. I believe that puppet should correctly handle this, and certainly default to 'user does not exist' rather than 'user exists'. ---------------------------------------- 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.
