On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Rob Reynolds <r...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Mark Wolek <markwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks John! It appears to open a ticket I do so on the GitHub site by >> logging in, is this correct? >> >> The reason for suspecting the lack of string termination is due to what >> we see in the Registry GUI, which is random characters and words after the >> string, then you hit Refresh on the page, the random characters and strings >> change. >> >> It does seem specific to a hyphen being in the string, but I will test >> again to be certain. >> > > Hi Mark, > What version of the registry module are you using? What version of the > Puppet agent are you on? The issues you stated above were known issues that > we believe we have corrected in newer versions of Puppet. > For reference, in Puppet it was PUP-1389[1] where we fixed the issue (Puppet v3.4.3+). In the Registry module we've recently applied similar changes[2], but mostly due to compatibility with Ruby 2.1.x. [1] https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-1389 [2] https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/MODULES-1723 > > We also vendor Ruby into the Puppet Installer for Windows (and we've done > this almost since the first release supporting Windows), so we can usually > rule out Ruby compatibilities in some respects, but not always with > modules. > > > >> >> Thanks! >> Mark >> >> >> On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 9:06:31 AM UTC-5, jcbollinger wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Friday, April 24, 2015 at 1:52:17 PM UTC-5, Mark Wolek wrote: >>>> >>>> We believe this has something to do with puppet inserting strings that >>>> are not null terminated, but I've had no luck at all adding termination to >>>> the string... have tried single and double quoting it. \x0 \00 \000 so >>>> many types of termination tried but nothing seems to do the trick... >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Having examined the source of the latest version of this module, I can >>> tell you that Puppet relies on registry support from the Ruby standard >>> library to handle the low-level details of registry manipulation. As far >>> as I can tell, Puppet's own code does not do any parsing or processing of >>> registry values that would be sensitive to a hyphen character in the >>> string. Were you speculating about that being related to the problem, or >>> do you in fact see different results when the array elements do not contain >>> hyphens? >>> >>> I am anyway inclined to think that the problem is NOT wrong string >>> termination, at least of the values you specify in your manifest, because >>> Get-ItemProperty is giving you an array value in which the first element >>> appears completely correct. The problem could, however, be related to >>> incorrectly specifying the size of the *array* to Windows, or failing >>> to provide an array terminator (I'm not much of a registry tinkerer, so I'm >>> not sure which would actually be applicable). >>> >>> I encourage you to file a ticket against the module. I am uncertain >>> whether the issue is there or in the Ruby standard library because the docs >>> of the relevant library class suffer from the vagueness typical of Ruby >>> docs, but the module maintainers are best positioned to evaluate that. >>> Even if the problem turns out to be in the underlying Ruby library, it does >>> not appear that the module's tests include any that exercise setting or >>> retrieving values of type "array", and a ticket against the module >>> *should* result at least in addition of such tests. >>> >>> >>> John >>> >>> -- >> 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/c0503ad5-5d72-48ed-868f-522491f93e78%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/c0503ad5-5d72-48ed-868f-522491f93e78%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Rob Reynolds > Developer, Puppet Labs > > *PuppetConf 2015 <http://2015.puppetconf.com/> is coming to Portland, > Oregon! 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