On Monday, July 9, 2012 1:02:43 PM UTC-5, Matthew Rayfield wrote:
>
> Hey everyone,
>
> I seem to be running into an error that I can't find an answer for.
>
> I have a simple manifest that installs a few packages and then starts a
> few services. But it chokes while installing Nginx with this error:
>
> err: /Stage[main]//Package[nginx]/ensure: change from purged to present
>> failed: Could not set 'present on ensure: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII
>> at /tmp/vagrant-puppet/manifests/manifest.pp:11
>
>
> If I run the manifest again, it will get to the next package and then have
> the same error with that package. BUT, if I run it a THIRD time, it
> finishes cleanly.
>
> I'm pretty puzzled. I've done a good amount of searching, but haven't
> found anything useful about this error.
>
> Here's my manifest:
>
> exec { 'sudo pacman -Syuw --noconfirm':
> path => '/usr/bin',
> }
> package { 'mongodb':
> ensure => present,
> }
> package { 'nginx':
> ensure => present,
> }
> package { 'python-pymongo':
> ensure => present,
> }
> package { 'python-tornado':
> ensure => present,
> }
> package { 'supervisor':
> ensure => present,
> }
> service { 'mongodb':
> ensure => running,
> enable => true,
> hasstatus => false,
> }
> service { 'nginx':
> ensure => running,
> enable => true,
> hasstatus => false,
> }
> Exec['sudo pacman -Syuw --noconfirm'] -> Package['mongodb'] ->
> Package['nginx'] -> Package['python-pymongo'] -> Package['python-tornado']
> -> Package['supervisor'] -> Service['mongodb'] -> Service['nginx']
>
>
I don't know much about Arch's peculiarities, and almost nothing about
pacman, but if Puppet doesn't do the same thing every time then it means
something about the target node changed between runs.
The error message Puppet emitted probably indicates that pacman returned a
non-zero error code when Puppet tried to use it to install the package. It
looks like a script associated with the package originally reported the
error. If that leaves pacman satisfied that the package is installed,
however, then Puppet probably won't try to install it again the next time.
You'll have to decide for yourself whether the package is installed as it
should be. You can probably generate the same error running pacman by hand
from the same starting system state.
Does pacman handle inter-package dependencies automatically (like yum, for
instance)? If so then you oughtn't to need all the relationships between
the packages, and without those Puppet probably would have made it through
the whole catalog on the first go.
John
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