I don't wanna hijack the thread but I'm also having almost the same issue. For me httpd/passenger starts just fine but puppetmaster doesn't start until I start it manually using puppetmasterd on the box. These are in the httpd_error log:
[Fri Jun 08 19:24:06 2012] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: > /usr/sbin/suexec) > [Fri Jun 08 19:24:06 2012] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest > authentication ... > [Fri Jun 08 19:24:06 2012] [notice] Digest: done > [Fri Jun 08 19:24:07 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) DAV/2 > Phusion_Passenger/3.0.12 mod_ssl/2.2.15 OpenSSL/1.0.0-fips configured -- > resuming normal operations > Is it related? Cheers!! -- 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/-/FALCmGVaxmgJ. 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.