Thanks for the confirmation Adrien, and for the tip on the puppet master
compile command. I don't do much administration so I'm not terribly
familiar with some of those common commands. I've got some more questions
you or others might be able to shed light on, but they're well beyond the
scope
Puppet 3.4.0 adds experimental support for the msgpack protocol (
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3/reference/experiments_msgpack.html),
but doesn't depend on it being present. To enable it you need to install
the msgpack gem and set the preferred serialization format, so unless
you're explicitly
Upon downgrading to 3.3.2-1 the problem still remains, so it does appear
that the missing msgpack gem is a red herring that is not the cause of my
problem. I'd still be interested in thoughts on that debug statement
though, particularly if we choose to move to the improved serialization in
the
