Howdy folks, I've got some weird behavior from one of my puppet clients (actually the client running on the puppet master), where running the agent somehow destroys either the yum cache or the rpm db. Directly after running the agent I get the following message from yum (without modifying yum.conf or any of the .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d/):
# yum list installed YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file. Eg. $releasever is not a valid release or hasnt been released yet/ removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: /var/cache/yum/x86_64/$releasever/base/mirrorlist.txt Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base Prior to running the puppet agent, yum was working perfectly. I was able to fix the above problem by reinstalling the centos-release package, but even after doing so a 'yum list installed' and 'rpm -qa' listed the centos-release package as *the only package installed* (clearly others were installed but the db probably got corrupted). Restart the puppet agent, and the error with $releasever resumed, and centos-release was shown as not installed by both yum and rpm. Looking through the puppet agent log (/var/log/puppet/puppet.log), I only found this in the startup procedure: Thu Feb 20 14:26:50 -0800 2014 Puppet (notice): Caught TERM; calling stop Thu Feb 20 14:26:51 -0800 2014 Puppet (notice): Reopening log files Thu Feb 20 14:26:51 -0800 2014 Puppet (notice): Starting Puppet client version 3.4.2 Thu Feb 20 14:26:52 -0800 2014 /File[/var/lib/rpm]/ensure (notice): removed Thu Feb 20 14:26:52 -0800 2014 /File[/var/lib/yum]/ensure (notice): removed Thu Feb 20 14:26:55 -0800 2014 Puppet (err): Could not prefetch package provider 'yum': Execution of '/usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/package/yumhelper.py' returned 1: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror So it looks like directly after the client starts, it removes(?) /var/lib/rpm and /var/lib/yum and then yum stops working again (with the same $releasever) error. The odd thing is that we have several other nodes that are having the exact same modules applied and experiencing zero issues, so something odd is going on with this particular node (which is also the master). Anyone experience anything like this or have any ideas what could be causing the puppet runs to basically destroy the yumdb? TIA, Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/bf8612f3-7c80-4587-b5dc-d4321a3f9840%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
