Jira (PUP-1598) unhelpfull error message when parent directory is missing

[Charlie Sharpsteen (JIRA)]

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Charlie Sharpsteen commented on PUP-1598   Re: unhelpfull error message when parent directory is missing Here's an updated test case for Puppet 3.8.0: # mkdir -p /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/environments/production/modules/test/files # touch /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/environments/production/modules/test/files/foo   # puppet apply -e 'file{"/tmp/doesnotexist/foo": ensure => file, source => "puppet:///modules/test/foo"}' Notice: Compiled catalog for pe-380-master.puppetdebug.vlan in environment production in 0.17 seconds Error: Could not set 'file' on ensure: No such file or directory - /tmp/doesnotexist/foo20150505-12857-st3w34.lock in 1 Error: Could not set 'file' on ensure: No such file or directory - /tmp/doesnotexist/foo20150505-12857-st3w34.lock in 1 Wrapped exception: No such file or directory - /tmp/doesnotexist/foo20150505-12857-st3w34.lock Error: /Stage[main]/Main/File[/tmp/doesnotexist/foo]/ensure: change from absent to file failed: Could not set 'file' on ensure: No such file or directory - /tmp/doesnotexist/foo20150505-12857-st3w34.lock in 1 Notice: Finished catalog run in 0.26 seconds Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346-sha1:dbc023d) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.