On Nov 10, 2010, at 8:40 AM, PBWebGuy wrote:
> I have one of 18+ servers in an environment that just started having a
> problem when attempting to do an update. On the node I enter the
> command 'puppetd -t --debug --trace'. I don't see anything obvious
> but the error is: "Could not retrieve catalog from remote server"
>
> I set the puppetmaster into debug mode with command 'puppetmasterd --
> no-daemonize --debug -v'. When the node attempts to update there is
> no output by the PM.
Make sure that you get output from the puppetmaster for some things. It's easy
to look at the wrong log if you are using passenger.
I've seen a similar error problem when the puppetmaster is overloaded so the
client times out. For me, this is when It gets all 50 clients ask for a
catalog at the same time (don't ask). Could this be the problem?
> I therefore setup tcpdump to watch the traffic
> and there is in fact traffic as shown below. Therefore I know that
> there is communications.
>
> On occasions it will update but is completely random.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
> tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size
> 96 bytes
> 11:31:02.253921 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 59181, offset 0, flags [DF],
> proto: TCP (6), length: 60) devcas1.domain.local.41082 >
> util3.domain.local.8140: S, cksum 0xb458 (correct),
> 297236183:297236183(0) win 5840 0,nop,wscale 7>
> 11:31:02.254422 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF],
> proto: TCP (6), length: 60) util3.domain.local.8140 >
> devcas1.domain.local.41082: S, cksum 0x7cda (correct),
> 1623860666:1623860666(0) ack 297236184 win 5792 1460,sackOK,timestamp 3608730031 666800634,nop,wscale 7>
> 11:31:02.255511 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 59182, offset 0, flags [DF],
> proto: TCP (6), length: 52) devcas1.domain.local.41082 >
> util3.domain.local.8140: ., cksum 0xc215 (correct), ack 1 win 46
>
> 11:31:02.357588 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 64523, offset 0, flags [DF],
> proto: TCP (6), length: 52) util3.domain.local.8140 >
> devcas1.domain.local.41082: F, cksum 0xc1ad (correct), 1:1(0) ack 1
> win 46
> 11:31:02.358933 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 59183, offset 0, flags [DF],
> proto: TCP (6), length: 52) devcas1.domain.local.41082 >
> util3.domain.local.8140: ., cksum 0xc146 (correct), ack 2 win 46
>
> 11:31:02.450472 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 59184, offset 0, flags [DF],
> proto: TCP (6), length: 157) devcas1.domain.local.41082 >
> util3.domain.local.8140: P 1:106(105) ack 2 win 46 666800831 3608730134>
> 11:31:02.450498 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF],
> proto: TCP (6), length: 40) util3.domain.local.8140 >
> devcas1.domain.local.41082: R, cksum 0xee79 (correct),
> 1623860668:1623860668(0) win 0
> 11:33:11.491647 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 44612, offset 0, flags [DF],
> proto: TCP (6), length: 334) devcas1.domain.local.55540 >
> util3.domain.local.ldaps: P 3058489015:3058489297(282) ack 81338168
> win 128
> 11:33:11.492744 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 48557, offset 0, flags [DF],
> proto: TCP (6), length: 446) util3.domain.local.ldaps >
> devcas1.domain.local.55540: P 1:395(394) ack 282 win 155
>
> 11:33:11.492818 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 48558, offset 0, flags [DF],
> proto: TCP (6), length: 142) util3.domain.local.ldaps >
> devcas1.domain.local.55540: P 395:485(90) ack 282 win 155
>
> 11:33:11.493585 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 44613, offset 0, flags [DF],
> proto: TCP (6), length: 52) devcas1.domain.local.55540 >
> util3.domain.local.ldaps: ., cksum 0x102d (correct), ack 395 win 142
>
> 11:33:11.493595 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 44614, offset 0, flags [DF],
> proto: TCP (6), length: 52) devcas1.domain.local.55540 >
> util3.domain.local.ldaps: ., cksum 0x0fd3 (correct), ack 485 win 142
>
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