On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:23 AM, tobyriddell <toby.ridd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a bit of a strange one here. I'm seeing intermittent errors
> for missing resource dependencies. I'm building up a Puppet config.
> for a new server, making changes gradually and running the puppet
> agent multiple times by hand to apply the changes. The behaviour I see
> is that the errors suddenly appear when I make an apparently unrelated
> change.
>
> Just to be clear: I have no argument with the fact that my Puppet
> config. has problems in it (clearly dependencies must be present),
> it's just that I'd expect the errors to be present the entire time
> rather than intermittent.
>
> I've got 'filetimeout = 0' set in puppet.conf on the master (and for
> good measure it's set on the client too). The behaviour persists
> across puppet master restarts and multiple client runs, and it seems
> to 'latch' - the errors will occur persistently for tens of runs, and
> then disappear for tens of runs.
>
> I was running Puppet 2.6.2 when the problem first appeared. I've
> upgraded both master and client to 2.6.8 and the behaviour persists.
>
> This is the resource definition that is raising the errors:
>
> service { 'nslcd': tag => ['weekday','services'],
> enable => true,
> ensure => running,
> subscribe => [ File['/etc/nslcd.conf'], File['/
> etc/krb5.conf'] ],
> }
>
> (error for the above is "err: Could not run Puppet configuration
> client: Could not find dependency File[/etc/nslcd.conf] for
> Service[nslcd] at /home/puppet/etc/development/modules/services/
> manifests/init.pp:105" - the client does not have nslcd installed, and
> hence /etc/nslcd.conf is indeed missing)
Where is the file resource /etc/nslcd.conf declared in the manifests?
Any conditionals controlling that file resource? How is the class
including /etc/nslcd.conf declared? Are you using tags to apply the
manifests (or when you are running puppet agent)?
Thanks,
Nan
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