Just checked with an English Windows 7: id: "nt authority\x5csystem"
Uhm, so why is it "binary" in the German version? I suppose decoded this is "NT Authorität\x5csystem" and that's where the umlaut \x84 comes from which puppet doesn't like. On 2014-03-20, 21:30, Andy Spiegl wrote: > > Okay, now we know that the problem has to do with the user SYSTEM. > > What could he be missing? Maybe an environment variable? > > I have an idea! I was playing around with foreman and noticed a new > error message: > root@foreman:~# /etc/puppet/node.rb winpet1 > Could not send facts to Foreman: "\x84" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 > > So I started comparing the yaml files in /var/lib/puppet/yaml/facts/ > and noticed that the "id" variable is strange when puppet is running > as user SYSTEM: > > < id: "winpet1\x5cadministrator" > --- > > id: !binary "bnQtYXV0b3JpdIR0XHN5c3RlbQ==\n" > > If I remove this line from the yaml file /etc/puppet/node.rb does not > complain anymore! > > Now the new question is: why is the ID garbled in this way? > > Thanks, > Andy. > -- Did you know: Women blink nearly twice as much as men. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/20140321105228.GA2239%40spiegl.de. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
