You have two possible problems. It's also possible that the directory was
locked because something else was doing stuff with packages. This is rather
unlikely though.
The puppet client runs as the user you run it as. If you start it as a
service, it runs as root. If you start is as an ordinary user, it runs as that
user. What you need to do is run puppet as root when you manually start it.
If this doesn't help, it might be easier to ask for help on IRC or try to
contact me through Gtalk.
On May 27, 2010, at 10:30 PM, prudhvi wrote:
> I face the same problem when trying the package type
>
> class apache {
> package { ["apache"] :
> ensure => latest,
> }
> }
>
> err: //apache/Package[apache]/ensure: change from purged to latest
> failed: Could not update: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o
> DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install apache' returned 100: E: Could
> not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
> E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are
> you root?
> at /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp:28
>
> It asks me for root privileges..
> Isnt there anyother way other than editing sudoers file on every
> node???
>
> and I also tried with timeout => "-1" in exec which resulted in the
> same error.
>
> thank you everyone,
> bhaskar.
>
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