This saved me a bunch of time just now. Thanks!
Regards,
Paul Otto
On Monday, February 24, 2014 at 7:53:14 AM UTC-7, Helen Paterson wrote:
>
> Thank you, this was a great help
>
> On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 5:21:21 PM UTC+1, Luke Bigum wrote:
>
>> Cheers, that'll teach me to cut and paste ;)
>>
>> The second example's resource name should be without quotes, so:
>>
>> $service_name = "httpd"
>> service { $servicename: ensure => running }
>> err: /Stage[main]/Puppet_dashboard::Service/Service[undef]/ensure:
>> change from stopped to running failed: Could not start Service[undef]:
>> Execution of '/sbin/service undef start' returned 1: at /etc/puppet/
>> environments/testing/modules/httpd/manifests/service.pp:26
>>
>> On Aug 24, 5:12 pm, Henrik Lindberg <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > I can't see any difference between your two examples.
>> > Typo?
>> > - henrik
>> > On 8/24/11 5:23 PM, Luke Bigum wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > Not sure if people are already aware of this, but it might save
>> > > someone some time in the future. I've been tracking down the
>> following
>> > > error today, it's rather unhelpful in telling you where the problem
>> is
>> > > in your manifests:
>> >
>> > > # puppetd --test
>> > > info: Retrieving plugin
>> > > err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Could not intern
>> > > from pson: Could not convert from pson: Could not find relationship
>> > > target "Service[]"
>> >
>> > > The problem is the parser using an empty string as a resource name
>> > > which I arrived at by using a variable inside double quotes for a
>> > > resource declaration. I did this for style (or have been until now) -
>> > > I like to have user defined strings in quotes so it easily
>> > > distinguishes between them and puppet keywords, plus for syntax
>> > > highlighting, etc. Turns out this personal preference has shot me in
>> > > the foot as the difference between the error messages for an empty
>> > > string versus an undefined variable is rather big.
>> >
>> > > See this unhelpful message:
>> >
>> > > $service_name = "httpd"
>> > > service { "$servicename": ensure => running }
>> > > err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Could not intern
>> > > from pson: Could not convert from pson: Could not find relationship
>> > > target "Service[]"
>> >
>> > > versus this:
>> >
>> > > $service_name = "httpd"
>> > > service { "$servicename": ensure => running }
>> > > err: /Stage[main]/Puppet_dashboard::Service/Service[undef]/ensure:
>> > > change from stopped to running failed: Could not start
>> Service[undef]:
>> > > Execution of '/sbin/service undef start' returned 1: at /etc/puppet/
>> > > environments/testing/modules/httpd/manifests/service.pp:26
>
>
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