Again, the error I'm seeing is: "Could not create resources for managing Puppet's files and directories in sections [:main, :puppetd, :ssl]: Could not find a default provider for file"
Has anyone here ever seen this error or know how to fix it? This is not a clearly worded error so I have no idea where to begin troubleshooting it. Thanks, Josh On Sep 16, 10:17 am, Josh <joshua.l.greenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nicolai, > > Thanks for the reply. I think I copied the /var/lib/puppet directory > from another server as a last resort after trying a bunch of other > things first. For the sake of argument, though, I've deleted my entire > puppet installation and begun from scratch. I did a yum install of > puppet and then did the following: > > [root@server ~]# puppetd --server puppetmaster.domain.com -- > waitforcert 30 --test > err: Could not create resources for managing Puppet's files and > directories in sections [:main, :puppetd, :ssl]: Could not find a > default provider for file > err: Could not create resources for managing Puppet's files and > directories in sections [:main, :ssl]: Could not find a default > provider for file > info: Creating a new SSL key for server.domain.com > err: Could not request certificate: Cannot save server.domain.com; > parent directory /var/lib/puppet/ssl/private_keys does not exist > info: Creating a new SSL key for server.domain.com > err: Could not request certificate: Cannot save server.domain.com; > parent directory /var/lib/puppet/ssl/private_keys does not exist > info: Creating a new SSL key for server.domain.com > err: Could not request certificate: Cannot save server.domain.com; > parent directory /var/lib/puppet/ssl/private_keys does not exist > info: Creating a new SSL key for server.domain.com > err: Could not request certificate: Cannot save server.domain.com; > parent directory /var/lib/puppet/ssl/private_keys does not exist > info: Creating a new SSL key for server.domain.com > err: Could not request certificate: Cannot save server.domain.com; > parent directory /var/lib/puppet/ssl/private_keys does not exist > Cancelling startup > > This error keeps scrolling up the screen until I ctrl-C out of it like > I did above. While this is going on, I run `puppetca --sign > server.domain.com` on the puppetmaster but it fails and says there is > no request from the server. At this point, I create the ssl/ > private_keys directory manually. I go through the above steps a few > more times and it complains about the ssl/public_keys, ssl/certs and > ssl/certificate_requests directories not existing so I create them as > well. After all of that, I can finally get a signed ssl cert. Then I > try to start the puppet service and get the following errors in > syslog: > > Starting Puppet client version 0.25.5 > Could not create resources for managing Puppet's files and directories > in sections [:main, :ssl, :puppetd]: Could not find a default provider > for file > Could not create resources for managing Puppet's files and directories > in sections [:main, :ssl]: Could not find a default provider for file > Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: No such file or > directory - /var/lib/puppet/client_yaml/catalog > Using cached catalog > Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run > > At this point, I stop puppet and create the client_yaml/catalog > directories. I restart puppet and then get the following errors in > syslog which is what my original question was about: > > Starting Puppet client version 0.25.5 > Could not create resources for managing Puppet's files and directories > in sections [:main, :ssl, :puppetd]: Could not find a default provider > for file > Could not create resources for managing Puppet's files and directories > in sections [:main, :ssl]: Could not find a default provider for file > Could not run Puppet configuration client: Could not find a default > provider for file > > Then puppet does nothing. If you know how to fix this error or you can > point out anything in my installation that's wrong, I'd greatly > appreciate it. I'm more than happy to read docs, too, if you can point > me to good online documentation but I've searched all over the puppet > labs site and can't find anything useful. Their docs for installing > and configuring a new server are terrible, especially when it comes to > adding a new client. Thanks very much for your help. > > Josh > > On Sep 15, 7:06 pm, Nicolai <nicolai.molle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > There is no need to copy _anything_ from /var/lib/puppet from another > > machine, actually i think it breaks stuff. > > > As youre running 0.25.5 you need to run puppetd once so that it can create > > its private key and cert, sign the cert on the master with puppetca --sign > > machine-name. > > > Then puppet should run and apply the manifests you have for the node. > > > Regards > > > Nicolai -- 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.
