heh. This bug taught us something valuable though. When testing new versions, running with "--test" isn't a good test :) as it ignores the local cache, and thus will never hit this bug....
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:41 AM, josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nigel, > > Thanks *phew* that was an easy one line fix! > > I had upgraded the server from 0.24.4 to 0.24.5 trying to troubleshoot > another issue, and introduced this one. > > Oh well, live and learn. > > I'll keep my eyes posted, see if the catalogs get run now on the > client machines. > > JOsh > > > On Sep 18, 11:29 am, "Nigel Kersten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Josh, that's this bug: > > > > http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/show/1551 > > > > and a simple server side patch will fix it, you can find the patch here: > > > > http://github.com/nigelkersten/puppetmaster/commit/65ce150b04e46cfb57... > > > > I'm not sure why more people haven't seen this. Does everyone simply > upgrade > > all their puppet clients at exactly the same time they upgrade their > > servers? > > > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:19 AM, josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Brian, > > > Sorry for getting a little bent out of shape, it's just that my boss > > > is pushing on me, etc. etc. > > > > > Anyways, I think I see an issue. > > > I saw this in the log file on a client, and I bet I'll see it on many > > > others if I looked. > > > > > Sep 18 10:48:55 puppetd[17896]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Could not > > > retrieve catalog: undefined method `-' for #<XMLRPC::DateTime: > > > 0x8e6cf14> > > > > > Looks like that started at around the same time that I went from using > > > Webrick for the web server to Apache2 in front of mongrel. > > > > > I basically used the httpd.conf that is on the Puppet web site. > > >http://www.reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/UsingMongrel > > > > > Well at least now I see there's a problem that can be resolved. > > > Thank you for helping me see the forest for the trees (or whatever > > > that expression is!) > > > > > Now I need to troubleshoot my apache2/mongrel configuration (as I'm > > > guessing that's where the issue lies). > > > > > On Sep 18, 10:51 am, "Brian Mathis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I understand your frustration with this problem, but you've now > > > > mentioned in almost every email that puppet is "not doing anything", > > > > "puppet isn't doing it's job", and "it's not doing anything". Since > > > > there are many happy users of puppet, it's a good indicator that > > > > puppet does indeed work, and it's most likely an issue specific to > > > > your configuration. > > > > > > The comment from "chalex" was meant to indicate an option on how you > > > > can check what's wrong with puppet, not as a way to manually perform > > > > the tasks instead of using puppet. > > > > > > Before this goes too off-topic about logging, it would be a good idea > > > > to reread the comment from Andrew Shafer where he suggests: > > > > > > > "Does it appear that puppet is doing other things? Because I > suspect > > > it isn't doing anything. > > > > > The mystery is to figure out why your puppet clients aren't > > > running/retrieving their catalogs. > > > > > > That's the right answer. Figure out why puppet isn't working. > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:39 PM, josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Splunk is in the works, puppet was the first step in the formula. > > > > > We do have a centralized log server, it's just that not all the > client > > > > > boxes have the proper syslog-ng config in place - another think > that > > > > > puppet was supposed to "fix" but since it's not doing anything, I'm > > > > > SOL. > > > > > > > I have enabled reporting for some stores manually, and it looks > like > > > > > things are working, but out of ~680 I'm only seeing 40 reporting > back. > > > > -- > > Nigel Kersten > > Systems Administrator > > Tech Lead - MacOps > > > -- Nigel Kersten Systems Administrator Tech Lead - MacOps --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
