Well, I wonder if there is a way to make puppet turn off the updater before starting it's run ?
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Eric Shamow <eric.sha...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have seen this behavior before as well. I've also seen it where > yum-updater (which is evil and shouldn't be running, but in some cases > hasn't been turned off yet by kickstart or puppet) will switch on and > demolish a bootstrap Puppet run. > > It would help if the yum handler was a little more verbose or had some > kind of watchdog that could reap stale processes after a while. The > hardest thing about this kind of problem is actually figuring out what > causes the issue, since Puppet/Yum only log the action after it's > completed. > > -Eric > > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Adrian Snyman <a.sny...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Adrian Snyman <a.sny...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Adrian Snyman <a.sny...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Trevor Hemsley >>>> <trevor.hems...@codefarm.com> wrote: >>>>> You're not exec'ing some install program that is stopping and waiting for >>>>> input? When we deploy Platform Symphony, we have to do something like an >>>>> exec that runs "echo Y | symphony-installer" or we get a similar problem. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Hmm, I am not aware of any installers running ... I will take a look >>>> and see if there are >>>> any background processes waiting for input .. thanks ! >>>> >>> >>> Well, I have run through the installation, and it appears to be >>> hanging on the installation of our grid software. >>> The commandline is executing, but the rpm's aren't downloading - so I >>> will keep looking ... >>> >>>>> Adrian Snyman wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Ohad Levy <ohadl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Does the puppet run starts at all? >>>>>>> I've seen similar case when the clock were out of sync, ntp started and >>>>>>> aligned it, but puppet got hanged because of it (or sleeping for a >>>>>>> really >>>>>>> long time). >>>>>>> does debug mode provide more info? >>>>>>> Ohad >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:11 AM, MadX <a.sny...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> We have successfully installed puppet on a CentOS Server, but I am >>>>>>>> battling with a deployment. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> It has to do with grid software. The repository gets created, then >>>>>>>> begins installation. >>>>>>>> The problem is that it just hangs - no errors, no network activity. I >>>>>>>> can see puppet is running, but nothing it being updated. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Any pointers ? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> 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. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> 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. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Well, This is happening at about 50% of the installation - so it is >>>>>> definitely deploying .. >>>>>> I am running : >>>>>> >>>>>> puppetd --test --verbose >>>>>> >>>>>> And, as listed above - that's the last message I am seeing .. :S Any >>>>>> other logs etc. I could give ? >>>>>> >>>>> >> >> Okay, just a heads up here ... >> I found the issue to be a faulty rpm. The user/group did not exist on >> the target system, and so after about 300 warnings, yum simply >> freezes. Installing the rpm manually showed the error. After creating >> the user and group - the deployment was successful. >> >> Unfortunately, puppet simply hangs while waiting for the rpm >> transaction to finish, and there is no indication as to what is >> holding up the >> install ... >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> >> Adrian >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> > > -- > 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. > > -- Regards, Adrian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. 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