On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 12:37:39 PM UTC-5, Bret Wortman wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 7:41:10 AM UTC-5, Bret Wortman wrote:
>>
>> Puppet 3.0.1 from Puppetlabs' repos, installed on F17.
>>
>> I've got puppet set to run automatically on startup after a minimal
>> cobbler install (using a slightly modified default.ks from cobbler). Puppet
>> starts on the subsequent reboot just fine, but its environment appears to
>> be unlike the environment I get when logging in interactively to start it.
>> Post-reboot, the system log will show entries like these:
>>
>> Nov 19 15:19:34 zw144 puppet-agent[933]: Starting Puppet client version
>> 3.0.1
>> Nov 19 15:19:34 zw144 puppet-agent[933]: Reopening log files
>> Nov 19 15:19:40 zw144 puppet-agent[933]: Could not autoload
>> puppet/provider/package/rpm: No child processes
>> :
>> : Several No child processes will follow, and often several iterations of
>> this, but ultimately I'll see something like this:
>> :
>> Nov 19 15:49:48 zw144 puppet-agent[933]:
>> (/Stage[main]/Sudo/File[sudo-config]/ensure) defined content as
>> '{md5}<hash>'
>> Nov 19 15:49:48 zw144 puppet-agent[933]:
>> (/Stage[main]/Yum/File[/etc/yum.repos.d/puppetlabs.repo]/ensure) defined
>> content as '{md5}<hash>'
>> :
>> : Usually runs will have some "No child processes" errors and some
>> successes. Eventually, though, I get something like this:
>> :
>> Nov 20 04:21:48 zsw144 puppet-agent[933]:
>> (/Stage[main]/Freeipa-client/Exec[[postinstall]) Dependency
>> Package[freeipa-client] has failures: true
>> Nov 20 04:21:48 zsw144 puppet-agent[933]:
>> (/Stage[main]/Freeipa-client/Exec[[postinstall]) Skipping because of failed
>> dependencies
>> Nov 20 04:21:48 zsw144 puppet-agent[933]:
>> (/Stage[main]/Freeipa-client/Exec[[postinstall]) Could not find a suitable
>> provider for package
>> Nov 20 04:21:48 zsw144 puppet-agent[933]:
>> (/Stage[main]/Freeipa-client/Exec[[postinstall]) Finished catalog run in
>> 1.22 seconds
>>
>> What's odd is that when I log in as root and run "puppet agent -t" from
>> an interactive session, freeipa-client (or whatever package has issues)
>> will install, along with numerous others remaining in the catalog. Also, if
>> I terminate the agent that started with the system and manually start one
>> using "puppet agent", the manually-started one will almost always have
>> fewer issues than the system-started one.
>>
>> So there appears to be some environmental difference between the puppet
>> agent running at startup and manually launching one. Any ideas? My goal is
>> to be able to install systems completely hands-off, from setting up the
>> cobbler and IPA servers to register them and letting puppet automatically
>> configure the system for me post-kickstart. But it's not working for me
>> very well just yet.
>>
>> Let me add here that this is happening on an x86_64 box. My i386es are
> unaffected.
>
>
I spoke too soon. Same issue on i386 after a Cobblerized kickstart install,
on startup and for some period thereafter.
>
>> Bret
>>
>
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