I don't suppose its your stack size? Whats the output of 'ulimit -a' on your box (as the user you were trying to run those command as of course). Mine is 8192 kb.
Can you try it with a later version of Ruby from RHEL 5.4? On Apr 8, 9:50 pm, Rob McBroom <mailingli...@skurfer.com> wrote: > I suspect this has more to do with Ruby than Puppet, but I know little about > Ruby and Google has failed me, so I'm asking here. > > I'm finally getting some of our older systems brought into Puppet. I > installed it on several this morning without incident, but there are two > (more or less identical RHEL 5.3 systems) that throw horrible errors. These > systems did not have Puppet or Ruby installed prior to today. > > # puppet --version > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/sync.rb:214:in `sync_unlock': stack level too deep > (SystemStackError) > from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/sync.rb:231:in `synchronize' > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/settings.rb:290:in `name' > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/settings.rb:288:in `each' > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/settings.rb:288:in `name' > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/settings.rb:825:in > `each_source' > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/settings.rb:823:in `each' > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/settings.rb:823:in > `each_source' > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/settings.rb:667:in > `uninterpolated_value' > ... 10 levels... > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/application/puppet.rb:1:in > `require' > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/application/puppet.rb:1 > from /usr/bin/puppet:70:in `require' > from /usr/bin/puppet:70 > > It seems that `facter` also poops its pants: > > # facter > Could not retrieve kernel: stack level too deep > /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/resolution.rb:31:in `exec': > stack level too deep (SystemStackError) > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/kernel.rb:6 > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/resolution.rb:118:in > `call' > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/resolution.rb:118:in > `value' > from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:48:in `timeout' > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/resolution.rb:116:in > `value' > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/fact.rb:75:in `value' > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:73:in `inject' > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/fact.rb:71:in `each' > ... 16 levels... > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:30:in > `load_all' > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/collection.rb:90:in > `load_all' > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter.rb:91:in `to_hash' > from /usr/bin/facter:138 > > Ruby itself seems to run: > > # ruby --version > ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [x86_64-linux] > > But that's not much of a challenge and I don't know how to do anything more > complicated. Perhaps there's some boring Ruby one-liner I could try to see if > it's working? > > -- > Rob McBroom > <http://www.skurfer.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-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.
