My pleasure.
On 20/01/2011, at 8:45, Lithium <brad.kr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Den,
>
> It was the second problem, not reverting all of my code. I still had a
> drupal6::site with the alias parameter (which I renamed to not
> conflict with the meta params to sitealias) set to
> 'scisoc.uwaterloo.ca'. After I changed alias to sitealias puppet ran
> fine. It was hard to pin down from the error messages especially since
> it seemed that the error would just associate itself to a random
> resource within the drupal6 class and not on anyone thing in
> specific.
>
> Thanks for being a sounding board, it was appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Jan 19, 1:25 pm, Denmat <tu2bg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Without seeing your code, does the user 'scisoc.uwaterloo.ca' already exist
>> in your manifest? Or maybe you didn't fully revert your changes? Also puppet
>> doesn't revert changes made to nodes unless you tell it how.
>>
>> Other tip would be to try virtualizing the resource and realize it, or
>> striping out what you are trying to do into a smaller class so you can test
>> what you are trying to do works. If it doesn't copy that code so we can see
>> what you are trying to do.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Den
>>
>> On 20/01/2011, at 2:23, Lithium <brad.kr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Sorry, I missed that part. Site is a define. Looking at the logs I'm
>>> also getting a different message at random:
>>
>>> Could not run Puppet configuration client: Parameter alias failed:
>>> Munging failed for value "scisoc.uwaterloo.ca" in class alias: Cannot
>>> alias Mysql::Database-user[scisoc_drupal6-monitoring] to
>>> scisoc.uwaterloo.ca; resource Mysql::Database-
>>> user[scisoc.uwaterloo.ca] already exists
>>
>>> I only get one error logged per puppet run so I hadn't seen this other
>>> message until now. Any idea what it could mean?
>>
>>> I'm still not sure why this problem would persist after reverting the
>>> puppet config for this client back to the state before it was
>>> happening, something seems to be preventing the client from getting
>>> back to the state it was in before the change that caused it was made.
>>
>>> On Jan 18, 8:14 pm, Denmat <tu2bg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> What is 'site'?? Define or class?? You haven't specified. Better check
>>>> your puppet doco..
>>
>>>> Den
>>
>>>> On 19/01/2011, at 3:20, Lithium <brad.kr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>
>>>>> I've had a class with the following setup:
>>
>>>>> class drupal6 {
>>>>> site (
>>>>> $ensure = 'present',
>>>>> $dbname,
>>>>> $dbpw,
>>>>> $dbserver,
>>>>> $sitefqdn,
>>>>> $modules = ""
>>>>> )
>>>>> {
>>>>> ....
>>>>> }
>>>>> ....
>>>>> }
>>
>>>>> I added the parameter alias to drupal6:site and now I'm getting the
>>>>> following error on the client: "Could not run Puppet configuration
>>>>> client: Parameter alias failed: /usr/share/drupal6/sites/
>>>>> scisoc.feds.ca/files can not create alias scisoc.uwaterloo.ca: object
>>>>> already exists at /srv/puppet/modules/drupal6/manifests/init.pp:179"
>>
>>>>> The object that already exists differs from run to run (is get
>>>>> different line numbers seemingly randomly on different resources
>>>>> defined in drupal6) but the error is still the same. After reverting
>>>>> to a puppet config version that had worked previously I still get the
>>>>> same error message. I have no idea why the error still occurs on the
>>>>> client machine even though I reverted all of my changes back to a
>>>>> version that was working previously. I know now that alias is a meta
>>>>> parameter but why would it still be set after the reversion? Has
>>>>> anyone else seen this issue or know how to resolve it? I'm running
>>>>> (Debian 2.6.26-26lenny1) puppet package 0.25.4-2~b. Thanks.
>>
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