In a simplified form, the issue occurs when "include" statement appears in the script. For instance, below script executes just fine without <include apache>. It still runs on the Master node (with warnings) with <include apache> but fails on Agent node:
/biz/puppet/hieradata/devbranch/site.pp: node default { include apache file { "/etc/sudoers": owner => root, group => root, mode => 660 } } Above site.pp executes on Master node: [me@ip-10-0-8-10 ~]$ sudo puppet apply --verbose /biz/puppet/hieradata/devbranch/site.pp Info: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/facter/root_home.rb Info: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/facter/pe_version.rb Info: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/facter/facter_dot_d.rb Info: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/facter/puppet_vardir.rb Info: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/concat/lib/facter/concat_basedir.rb Warning: Could not retrieve fact fqdn Warning: Host is missing hostname and/or domain: ip-10-0-8-10 Warning: Config file /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml not found, using Hiera defaults Info: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/facter/root_home.rb Info: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/facter/pe_version.rb Info: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/facter/facter_dot_d.rb Info: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/facter/puppet_vardir.rb Info: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/concat/lib/facter/concat_basedir.rb Info: Applying configuration version '1375827325' Error: Could not start Service[httpd]: Execution of '/sbin/service httpd start' returned 1: Error: /Stage[main]/Apache/Service[httpd]/ensure: change from stopped to running failed: Could not start Service[httpd]: Execution of '/sbin/service httpd start' returned 1: Notice: Finished catalog run in 4.04 seconds But fails for the Agent node: [me@ip-10-0-8-11 puppet-skeleton]$ sudo puppet agent --test Info: Retrieving plugin Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/root_home.rb Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/concat_basedir.rb Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/pe_version.rb Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/facter_dot_d.rb Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/puppet_vardir.rb Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: syntax error on line 13, col 10: `' at /biz/puppet/hieradata/devbranch/site.pp:3 on node ip-10-0-8-11 Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run Any ideas? -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.