Managed to reproduce the problem by limiting the number of threads to 200 on Ubuntu 18.04
echo 200 > /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max root@raw-drawl:~# facter Traceback (most recent call last): 14: from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/facter:10:in `<main>' 13: from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/facter/framework/cli/cli_launcher.rb:23:in `start' 12: from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor/base.rb:485:in `start' 11: from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor.rb:392:in `dispatch' 10: from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor/invocation.rb:127:in `invoke_command' 9: from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in `run' 8: from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/facter/framework/cli/cli.rb:114:in `query' 7: from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/facter.rb:390:in `to_user_output' 6: from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/facter/framework/core/fact_manager.rb:25:in `resolve_facts' 5: from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/facter/framework/core/fact/internal/internal_fact_manager.rb:15:in `resolve_facts' 4: from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/facter/framework/core/fact/internal/internal_fact_manager.rb:62:in `start_threads' 3: from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/facter/framework/core/fact/internal/internal_fact_manager.rb:62:in `map' 2: from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/facter/framework/core/fact/internal/internal_fact_manager.rb:63:in `block in start_threads' 1: from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/facter/framework/core/fact/internal/internal_fact_manager.rb:63:in `new' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/facter/framework/core/fact/internal/internal_fact_manager.rb:63:in `initialize': can't create Thread: Resource On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 2:15:46 PM UTC+2 bogdan...@puppet.com wrote: > Hi Helmut, > > Facter 4 resolves each fact on a separate thread, this can lead to a high > number of threads being created. Can you please provide the output of `cat > /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max` on the system where you see this issue? Does > this happen at every run or sporadically? > > Please try to run facter from the cli and let me know if you have any > issues. > > > > You can disable parallel fact resolution with facter.conf ( > https://puppet.com/docs/facter/3.11/configuring_facter.html) by adding > > > global : { > > sequential : true > > } > > > > Best regards, > > Bogdan Irimie > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 10:54 AM Helmut Schneider <jump...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> after update of puppet-agent on Ubuntu I get the following error: >> >> Debug: Facter: Query is operatingsystem >> Debug: Facter: Checking query tokens operatingsystem >> Debug: Facter: List of resolvable facts: >> [#<Facter::SearchedFact:0x000055f89f7fb640 @name="operatingsystem", >> @fact_class=Facts::Linux::Os::Name, @filter_tokens=[], >> @user_query="operatingsystem", @type=:legacy, @file=nil>] >> Debug: Facter: Resolving fact in parallel >> Debug: Facter: Loading external facts >> Debug: Facter: User query is: [] >> Debug: Facter: Resolving fact in parallel >> Error: Could not retrieve local facts: can't create Thread: Resource >> temporarily unavailable >> Error: Failed to apply catalog: Could not retrieve local facts: can't >> create Thread: Resource temporarily unavailable >> Debug: Resolving service 'report' using Puppet::HTTP::Resolver::Settings >> >> helmut@h2873756:~$ lsb_release -a >> No LSB modules are available. >> Distributor ID: Ubuntu >> Description: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS >> Release: 18.04 >> Codename: bionic >> helmut@h2873756:~$ puppet -V >> 7.0.0 >> helmut@h2873756:~$ >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Thank you! >> >> -- >> 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...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/rqneve%24slb%241%40ciao.gmane.io >> . >> > -- 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/8ced7a94-eae5-4701-b6a5-e832d6d32533n%40googlegroups.com.
