Disabling NetworkManager hasn't caused any issues for me so far. That said,
EL7.3 might break that, so Fedora may already be broken.

Trevor

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Rob Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:

> That wiki page says that all you should need to do is have NetworkManager
> or systemd-networkd services enabled. Do you by any chance have them both
> disabled on the affected node? I know many of us don't like NetworkManager,
> but disabling it entirely can cause some problems. Just a guess, as I
> haven't seen this issue on any of my nodes, including the low-RAM ones.
>
>
> Rob Nelson
> [email protected]
>
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:33 PM, Laverne Schrock <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a box on which puppet-agent does not start correctly on reboot.
>> Well, to be more precise, the puppet-agent starts, but never contacts the
>> server.
>>
>>
>> $ sudo journalctl -b 0 -u puppet -f
>>> -- Logs begin at Wed 2017-02-01 18:27:11 CST. --
>>> Mar 06 12:42:03 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Puppet agent.
>>> Mar 06 12:42:16 localhost.localdomain puppet-agent[927]: Could not request 
>>> certificate: getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in name resolution
>>> Mar 06 12:44:16 a.real.hostname.tld puppet-agent[927]: Could not request 
>>> certificate: getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in name resolution
>>> Mar 06 12:46:16 a.real.hostname.tld puppet-agent[927]: Could not request 
>>> certificate: getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in name resolution
>>> Mar 06 12:48:16 a.real.hostname.tld puppet-agent[927]: Could not request 
>>> certificate: getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in name resolution
>>>
>>>
>> Note how when the puppet-agent starts, the box doesn't yet know its
>> hostname because the network stack is (apparently) not fully up. Running
>> `systemctl restart puppet` resolves the issue until the next reboot.
>>
>> I was able to find a work-around. In the systemd unit file for puppet, I
>> changed
>>
>> After=basic.target network.target
>>>
>> to
>>
>>>  After=basic.target network-online.target
>>>
>>
>> See: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/NetworkTarget/
>>
>> The box is a fresh install of Fedora 25 and is using the following
>> packages:
>>
>>> puppet-agent-1.9.3-1.fedoraf25.x86_64
>>> puppetlabs-release-pc1-1.1.0-5.fedoraf25.noarch
>>>
>>
>> I have another box with the same setup (but a little more RAM) and the
>> issue does not occur there.
>>
>> I have two thoughts on this.
>> 1) This is a subtle timing issue which is why I see it on one box, but
>> not the other.
>> 2) puppet-agent is misbehaving and ought to  properly detect when the
>> networking stack comes up.
>> 3) If I want to resolve this, I should just use my workaround.
>>
>> Does #3 seem like the best plan? I'd appreciate any insight into why the
>> issue is occurring.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Laverne Schrock
>>
>>
>>
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