That looks like a puppet bug of the exec rype. see e.g.
http://stackoverflow.com/a/14381862/4918 for how this message can be
triggered.
Another possibility might be that the machine in question is running out
of resources or is being shutdown while the agent is running?
Regards, David
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Occasionally one of my osx servers will fail a puppet run. If I run it
again manually it works fine. It happens about once per day. Puppet agent
runs every hour. Any Ideas what this means? All I'm doing is writing a
string value to a plist file.
Here's what the puppet log says in Dashboard.