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 -- 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/36ca1e68-fa09-4654-ba62-9c13c2561c76%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
