On Feb 6, 2009, at 10:45 AM, macbrass wrote: > > I'm having the exact same problem getting the initial puppet install > going on a Mac. I've tried installing it from the packages on Nigel's > site as well as with Ruby Gems, both times on a completely clean > system using the latest build (0.24.7). I get the same error messages > about "Got 9 failure(s) while initializing: Tried to get name field > for silly id 4294967294;" etc. > > Any thoughts on why this might still be going on? I'm excited about > Puppet. I think it will be great for our OS X clusters and > workstations so I'd love to get this working.
This is because OS X uses a 'nobody' user with an id of '-2', but only some of the OS X tools produce negative numbers, the others produce the unsigned int, which is 64bit, so you get this gigantic positive number instead of a small negative number. If you run with --debug, you'll see which files are failing. Most likely, those are owned by 'nobody' or something similar, so you could chown them to root and probably be up and running. -- Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. --Robert Heinlein --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
