Hello All, The fix for me was to create a new puppet user on the system with the System Preferences User Create tool.
I fooled around with the command line dscl user creation tool, but could never get it working, so I punted and used the GUI. Thanks everyone for all your hard work. -Tom On Feb 9, 10:31 am, Luke Kanies <l...@madstop.com> wrote: > On Feb 6, 2009, at 10:45 AM, macbrass wrote: > > > > > I'm having the exact same problem getting the initial puppet install > > going on a Mac. I've tried installing it from the packages on Nigel's > > site as well as with Ruby Gems, both times on a completely clean > > system using the latest build (0.24.7). I get the same error messages > > about "Got 9 failure(s) while initializing: Tried to get name field > > for silly id 4294967294;" etc. > > > Any thoughts on why this might still be going on? I'm excited about > > Puppet. I think it will be great for our OS X clusters and > > workstations so I'd love to get this working. > > This is because OS X uses a 'nobody' user with an id of '-2', but only > some of the OS X tools produce negative numbers, the others produce > the unsigned int, which is 64bit, so you get this gigantic positive > number instead of a small negative number. > > If you run with --debug, you'll see which files are failing. Most > likely, those are owned by 'nobody' or something similar, so you could > chown them to root and probably be up and running. > > -- > Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in > private and wash your hands afterwards. --Robert Heinlein > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Luke Kanies |http://reductivelabs.com|http://madstop.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
