Cheers, that'll teach me to cut and paste ;)
The second example's resource name should be without quotes, so:
$service_name = "httpd"
service { $servicename: ensure => running }
err: /Stage[main]/Puppet_dashboard::Service/Service[undef]/ensure:
change from stopped to running failed: Could not start Service[undef]:
Execution of '/sbin/service undef start' returned 1: at /etc/puppet/
environments/testing/modules/httpd/manifests/service.pp:26
On Aug 24, 5:12 pm, Henrik Lindberg <henrik.lindb...@cloudsmith.com>
wrote:
> I can't see any difference between your two examples.
> Typo?
> - henrik
> On 8/24/11 5:23 PM, Luke Bigum wrote:
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> > Not sure if people are already aware of this, but it might save
> > someone some time in the future. I've been tracking down the following
> > error today, it's rather unhelpful in telling you where the problem is
> > in your manifests:
>
> > # puppetd --test
> > info: Retrieving plugin
> > err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Could not intern
> > from pson: Could not convert from pson: Could not find relationship
> > target "Service[]"
>
> > The problem is the parser using an empty string as a resource name
> > which I arrived at by using a variable inside double quotes for a
> > resource declaration. I did this for style (or have been until now) -
> > I like to have user defined strings in quotes so it easily
> > distinguishes between them and puppet keywords, plus for syntax
> > highlighting, etc. Turns out this personal preference has shot me in
> > the foot as the difference between the error messages for an empty
> > string versus an undefined variable is rather big.
>
> > See this unhelpful message:
>
> > $service_name = "httpd"
> > service { "$servicename": ensure => running }
> > err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Could not intern
> > from pson: Could not convert from pson: Could not find relationship
> > target "Service[]"
>
> > versus this:
>
> > $service_name = "httpd"
> > service { "$servicename": ensure => running }
> > err: /Stage[main]/Puppet_dashboard::Service/Service[undef]/ensure:
> > change from stopped to running failed: Could not start Service[undef]:
> > Execution of '/sbin/service undef start' returned 1: at /etc/puppet/
> > environments/testing/modules/httpd/manifests/service.pp:26
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