I'm not sure if it is related to the services. It rather looks like puppet related to me. I'm having a similar problem on a newly created vps. When I do puppet apply first time I get the message: Error: Could not set 'present' on ensure: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII at 3:/root/mf-prod.pp Error: Could not set 'present' on ensure: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII at 3:/root/mf-prod.pp Wrapped exception: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII Error: /Stage[main]//Package[nginx]/ensure: change from purged to present failed: Could not set 'present' on ensure: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII at 3:/root/mf-prod.pp
The mentioned file looks like this: package { "nginx": ensure => "installed" } service { "nginx": enable => "true", ensure => "running" } Hexdump: 00000000 70 61 63 6b 61 67 65 20 7b 20 22 6e 67 69 6e 78 |package { "nginx| 00000010 22 3a 0a 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 65 6e 73 75 72 |":. ensur| 00000020 65 20 3d 3e 20 22 69 6e 73 74 61 6c 6c 65 64 22 |e => "installed"| 00000030 0a 7d 0a 0a 73 65 72 76 69 63 65 20 7b 20 22 6e |.}..service { "n| 00000040 67 69 6e 78 22 3a 0a 09 65 6e 61 62 6c 65 20 3d |ginx":..enable =| 00000050 3e 20 22 74 72 75 65 22 2c 0a 09 65 6e 73 75 72 |> "true",..ensur| 00000060 65 20 3d 3e 20 22 72 75 6e 6e 69 6e 67 22 0a 7d |e => "running".}| 00000070 0a |.| 00000071 puppet version: 3.2.1-rc1 ruby version: 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24 revision 39474) [i686-linux] os: arch linux with systemd service provider On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 3:14:47 PM UTC+1, jcbollinger wrote: > > > > On Monday, February 18, 2013 11:02:05 PM UTC-6, Patrick wrote: >> >> No, but it's not related to the manifest. The manifest this resource is >> in actually hasn't changed in months. Also I can reboot the box and it goes >> away. Other boxes that aren't doing it will sometimes start doing it when >> they reboot. (at least that's the behaviour I've been observing, but I have >> only rebooted a few boxes since this started occurring). >> So it seems like it's environmental, but I have no clue what. >> > > I concur. The diagnostic messages appear to indicate that one of the > system tools Puppet is using to manage the service (probably /sbin/initctl) > fails with the given error message. That could well mean that the > underlying init script (if any) or the daemon binary itself is failing, and > initctl is just passing on the result. > > You said that the error occurs whenever you run Puppet, but you also said > it goes away if you reboot. I'm not sure how to reconcile those. It may > matter, because one of the potential problem areas involves whether the > system tools return the correct response to the service's 'status' > command. If they don't, then Puppet could try to start it when it is > already running, to which the service might object. > > You could try to troubleshoot by running the service status, start, stop, > and restart commands manually, and seeing what happens. Make sure to use a > shell with the minimum possible environment -- maybe just a minimal PATH -- > because that's what the agent will do. Capture not just the behavior and > any messages, but also the status code returned by each command. > > > John > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.