On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 7:41:10 AM UTC-5, Bret Wortman wrote:
>
> Puppet 3.0.1 from Puppetlabs' repos, installed on F17.
>
> I've got puppet set to run automatically on startup after a minimal
> cobbler install (using a slightly modified default.ks from cobbler). Puppet
> starts on the subsequent reboot just fine, but its environment appears to
> be unlike the environment I get when logging in interactively to start it.
> Post-reboot, the system log will show entries like these:
>
> Nov 19 15:19:34 zw144 puppet-agent[933]: Starting Puppet client version
> 3.0.1
> Nov 19 15:19:34 zw144 puppet-agent[933]: Reopening log files
> Nov 19 15:19:40 zw144 puppet-agent[933]: Could not autoload
> puppet/provider/package/rpm: No child processes
> :
> : Several No child processes will follow, and often several iterations of
> this, but ultimately I'll see something like this:
> :
> Nov 19 15:49:48 zw144 puppet-agent[933]:
> (/Stage[main]/Sudo/File[sudo-config]/ensure) defined content as
> '{md5}<hash>'
> Nov 19 15:49:48 zw144 puppet-agent[933]:
> (/Stage[main]/Yum/File[/etc/yum.repos.d/puppetlabs.repo]/ensure) defined
> content as '{md5}<hash>'
> :
> : Usually runs will have some "No child processes" errors and some
> successes. Eventually, though, I get something like this:
> :
> Nov 20 04:21:48 zsw144 puppet-agent[933]:
> (/Stage[main]/Freeipa-client/Exec[[postinstall]) Dependency
> Package[freeipa-client] has failures: true
> Nov 20 04:21:48 zsw144 puppet-agent[933]:
> (/Stage[main]/Freeipa-client/Exec[[postinstall]) Skipping because of failed
> dependencies
> Nov 20 04:21:48 zsw144 puppet-agent[933]:
> (/Stage[main]/Freeipa-client/Exec[[postinstall]) Could not find a suitable
> provider for package
> Nov 20 04:21:48 zsw144 puppet-agent[933]:
> (/Stage[main]/Freeipa-client/Exec[[postinstall]) Finished catalog run in
> 1.22 seconds
>
> What's odd is that when I log in as root and run "puppet agent -t" from an
> interactive session, freeipa-client (or whatever package has issues) will
> install, along with numerous others remaining in the catalog. Also, if I
> terminate the agent that started with the system and manually start one
> using "puppet agent", the manually-started one will almost always have
> fewer issues than the system-started one.
>
> So there appears to be some environmental difference between the puppet
> agent running at startup and manually launching one. Any ideas? My goal is
> to be able to install systems completely hands-off, from setting up the
> cobbler and IPA servers to register them and letting puppet automatically
> configure the system for me post-kickstart. But it's not working for me
> very well just yet.
>
> Let me add here that this is happening on an x86_64 box. My i386es are
unaffected.
>
> Bret
>
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