I would use puppet-enterprise-1.2.3-solaris-10-sparc instead of 1.2.1,
but the installer is broken.  I filed this bug on the issue -
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/10069 - and if the package
doesn't have a problem, then I have no idea what dependency we haven't
satisfied.

Thanks,
Berry

On Oct 12, 1:25 pm, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Berry Sizemore 
> <berry.sizem...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > When I set out learning Puppet I was using the free version (not PE)
> > and was able to do all I wanted to do running the agent as the puppet
> > user.  I recently switched to Puppet Enterprise when I hit the snag
> > this thread is about, and continued the practice of running the agent
> > as the puppet user.  Little did I know that PE employs prtdiag where
> > the free version apparently doesn't (it could be failing silently).
>
> This must just be a version difference somewhere in what you're running.
>
> Puppet and Facter in PE are just specific versions of the open source
> projects.
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> > The giveaway is the error message "prtdiag can only be run in the
> > global zone", which for you beginners like me means "you aren't doing
> > this as root when you should be", but there is surely a highly
> > technical/philosophical discussion behind my inexpert summary.
> > Consult the documentation and/or your Solaris system administrator for
> > a better explanation.
>
> > It's fair to say that the Puppet Enterprise agent in Solaris 10 has a
> > dependency on the root user.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Berry Sizemore
>
> > On Oct 12, 11:04 am, Berry Sizemore <berry.sizem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Adrien,
>
> > > Thanks for the reply.
>
> > > hostxyz: facter facterversion
> > > 1.6.0
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> > > hostxyz: facter
> > > prtdiag can only be run in the global zone
> > > Error: private method `split' called for nil:NilClass
>
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