A colleague of mine had a similar issue. When he ran it, the first time it
failed and the second time it succeeds.
We noticed that his init.pp under modules/manifest doesn't contain a class.
By adding an empty class, e.g. class xyz { }, solved the issue.
On Saturday, February 25, 2012 2:11:36 PM UTC-5, Mike Knell wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I've got a fairly basic out-of-the-box puppetmaster/puppet setup (out
> of the box on Ubuntu, that is), but am running into a bit of an odd
> problem with updating clients.
>
> The first time a host runs Puppet, and every time I change anything in
> the configs on the server, the agent has to run once and abort for
> each included class (module, thing..) on the machine I'm trying to
> configure before it finally just works after 'n' tries and everything
> works fine.
>
> I've tried to Google this, asked some colleagues with Puppet smarts,
> and not come up with any useful hints. Anyone got any idea what's
> going on here? See below for a sample run of (multiple) attempts.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
> # puppet agent --test
> err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on
> SERVER: Could not find class unix for hostname.uffish.net at
> /etc/puppet/manifests/templates.pp:2 on node hostname.uffish.net
> warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
> err: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run
> # puppet agent --test
> err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on
> SERVER: Could not find class users for hostname.uffish.net at
> /etc/puppet/manifests/templates.pp:3 on node hostname.uffish.net
> warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
> err: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run
> # puppet agent --test
> err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on
> SERVER: Could not find class ntp for hostname.uffish.net at
> /etc/puppet/manifests/templates.pp:8 on node hostname.uffish.net
> warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
> err: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run
> # puppet agent --test
> err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on
> SERVER: Could not find class bind for hostname.uffish.net at
> /etc/puppet/manifests/templates.pp:9 on node hostname.uffish.net
> warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
> err: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run
> # puppet agent --test
> err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on
> SERVER: Could not find class squid for hostname.uffish.net at
> /etc/puppet/manifests/templates.pp:24 on node hostname.uffish.net
> warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
> err: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run
> # puppet agent --test
> info: Caching catalog for hostname.uffish.net
> (from here on in, runs normally)
>
>
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