I ran into same problem after installing puppet as gem on Ubuntu 10.04. I don't know what's the purpose of '/etc/puppet/etckeeper-commit-pre' but at least such executable is not found in the file system.
Workaround for me was to comment out (#) the following lines in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf: prerun_command=/etc/puppet/etckeeper-commit-pre postrun_command=/etc/puppet/etckeeper-commit-post Now puppet runs fine. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/DrjWV4h5jyEJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.