I just tried the same procedure Alex R. Owen tried, on an unstable powerpc box, and the PID file was created fine, and had a PID in it, and puppetmaster stopped when the init.d script told it to.
So something else's up, but maybe this isn't RC if it can't
be reproduced (in its new variant, the empty-pidfile bug).
Alex, try adding
File.open(@pidfile + ".%d" % $$, "w") { |f| f.puts $$ }
directly below the existing File.open(@pidfile... line,
and see if you get a /var/run/puppetmasterd.pid.[PID] file
created.
0.22.0 seems unlikely to go into Etch, so that's not a
solution that'll help the RC bug count.
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