Daniel,
I started seeing these symptoms when my puppetmaster was overloaded
with more clients than Webrick could handle. Are you running Webrick
or something else?
--Paul
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote:
>
> G'day.
>
> We are running into a regular problem, which I can't track down, where
> puppetmaster will simply stop responding appropriately to clients.
>
> I have exhausted my ideas for debugging this, so I turn to y'all for
> advice on where next to look in terms of tracking down and killing the
> root of these issues.
>
> The errors, on the client side, are roughly:
>
> Mar 12 16:15:27 amhocn04 puppetd[17153]: Could not call
> puppetmaster.getconfig: #<NoMethodError: private method `split' called for
> nil:NilClass>
> Mar 12 16:15:27 amhocn04 puppetd[17153]: Could not retrieve catalog: private
> method `split' called for nil:NilClass
> Mar 12 16:15:27 amhocn04 puppetd[17153]:
> (//Node[default]/apt/Apt::Key[backports.org]/Exec[/usr/bin/apt-key add
> /etc/apt/backports.org.key]) Dependency file[/etc/apt/backports.org.key] has
> 1 failures
> Mar 12 16:15:27 amhocn04 puppetd[17153]:
> (//Node[default]/apt/Apt::Key[backports.org]/Exec[/usr/bin/apt-key add
> /etc/apt/backports.org.key]) Skipping because of failed dependencies
> [... and so forth for the rest of the cached config ...]
>
> On the server side, nothing. Specifically, no errors in the rails
> related logs, no errors in syslog, nothing useful shows up when running
> puppetmaster with debug enabled, etc.
>
> So, hints? It seems to be that the puppetmaster either refuses
> connections part way through the transaction, or that something gets
> significantly out of sync.
>
> Both ends are running puppet{,master} 0.24.5-3~sd-backport-1, which is
> our backport of the 0.24.5 puppet release on Debian etch.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
> >
>
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