okay. it looks like by uncommenting "server = puppet" from the auto conf file, it stops complaining about hostname not match.
However, new error comes up: /etc/puppet/ssl/certs# puppet agent --server puppet --waitforce 30 --test sh: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory sh: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/facter/util/resolution.rb:46: warning: Insecure world writable dir /etc/condor in PATH, mode 040777 /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/defaults.rb:67: warning: Insecure world writable dir /etc/condor in PATH, mode 040777 sh: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory sh: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory sh: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory sh: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory sh: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory sh: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory sh: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory info: Creating a new SSL key for box warning: peer certificate won't be verified in this SSL session info: Caching certificate for ca warning: peer certificate won't be verified in this SSL session warning: peer certificate won't be verified in this SSL session info: Creating a new SSL certificate request for box info: Certificate Request fingerprint (md5): warning: peer certificate won't be verified in this SSL session warning: peer certificate won't be verified in this SSL session warning: peer certificate won't be verified in this SSL session warning: peer certificate won't be verified in this SSL session info: Caching certificate for box sh: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory sh: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory err: Could not run Puppet configuration client: Could not retrieve local facts: No such file or directory - getcwd That;s because I commented out factdest = /var/lib/puppet/facts/ But if I uncomment, I can't start puppetmaster again tc/init.d/puppetmaster start * Starting puppet master Could not prepare for execution: Got 1 failure(s) while initializing: change from directory to file failed: Could not set 'file on ensure: Is a directory - /var/lib/puppet/facts [fails] On Monday, July 2, 2012 12:40:16 PM UTC-4, dns wrote: > > Please help me. I've been dealing with this for a week. > > I have two clean installs agent and master on ubuntu/ > apt-get install puppetmaster > apt-get install puppet > > I signed my agent. My wait was 30 seconds, and 30 seconds later it tries > to connecct, but instead it said hostname not match. > > On my agent: > /etc/puppet/ssl/certs# ls > ca.pem box.pem > > On my master: > /etc/puppet/ssl/certs# ls > ca.pem master.pem > > > I know I can compare certifactes with openssl x509 -text -in > /etc/puppet/ssl/certs/<name>, but I have no idea what to compare. > Please help me. I've googled many helps already... > I autogenerated puppet.conf on master machine: "/usr/sbin/puppetmasterd > --genconfig > /etc/puppet/puppet.conf" > I think it's missing the certname part. Minimally, what should be present? > > > Thanks. > -- 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/-/xfhzUfM7ThQJ. 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.