I was running the puppet vm inside Ubuntu/VirtualBox VM. It times out running that command.
I am putitng this here, with the answer, to help others. The fix for me was to go to THREE Gigabytes of memory and 2 processors. The ducumentation says to use at least 2 gigabytes, and never said anything about more than one processor. Again, for Puppet VM tutorial: ----------------------------------------- Use: 3+ Gigabytes of RAM 2+ processors -- 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/fe933edf-511a-4dfa-9604-e7ba49ded319%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
