Further to this, journalctl -xe has this to contribute when I try to start it up:
: systemd[1]: Unit puppetserver.service entered failed state. systemd[1]: puppetserver.service failed. polkitd[632]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:16477:1258070 (system bus name :1.652, object pathy /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_us.UTF : On Monday, July 2, 2018 at 8:35:33 AM UTC-4, Bret Wortman wrote: > > I accidentally ran puppet agent on our puppet master and now puppet server > won't start up any more. Multiple reboots have failed to clear the > situation and I can't figure out what file changed. > > Here's the tail end of /var/log/messages | grep puppetserver, minus the > datestamps: > > : > puppet puppetserver: at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) > puppet puppetserver: at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) > puppet puppetserver: at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) > puppet puppetserver: Background process 4918 exited before start had > completed > puppet systemd: puppetserver.service: control process exited, code=exited > status=1 > puppet systemd: Failed to start puppetserver Service. > puppet systemd: Unit puppetserver.service entered failed state. > puppet systemd: puppetserver.service failed. > puppet systemd: puppetserver.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart > puppet systemd: Starting puppetserver Service... > puppet puppetserver: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option > MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0 > > Any thoughts about where to look next for a solution, or at least a more > in-depth understanding of what's going on? This server has been in > operation for several years without any issues until we stomped something... > > Thanks, > -- 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/7a4aefa7-5e9f-4c98-a7e9-e97b8e2ab474%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.