Puppet

Summary: On a fresh install of Puppet 2.6.0 on Mac OS X 10.6.4 the command puppetmasterd --mkusers produces errors

Steps to Reproduce:

sudo -i
curl -o facter-latest.tgz http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/facter/facter-latest.tgz
curl -o puppet-latest.tgz http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-latest.tgz
tar zxvf facter-latest.tgz
cd facter-1.5.7
/usr/bin/ruby ./conf/osx/createpackage.sh
installer -pkg facter-1.5.7.pkg -target /
cd ..
tar zxvf puppet-latest.tgz
cd puppet-2.6.0
/usr/bin/ruby ./conf/osx/createpackage.sh
installer -pkg puppet-2.6.0.pkg -target /
/usr/sbin/puppetmasterd --mkusers --verbose --debug

Expected Results:

Puppet Maser Daemon should start.

Actual Results:

Could not prepare for execution: Got 32 failure(s) while initializing: Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; change from root to 4294967294 failed: Failed to set owner to '4294967294': integer 4294967294 too big to convert to `int'; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; change from wheel to puppet failed: failed to chgrp /var/lib/puppet/reports to 4294967294: integer 4294967294 too big to convert to `int'; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; change from root to 4294967294 failed: Failed to set owner to '4294967294': integer 4294967294 too big to convert to `int'; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; change from wheel to puppet failed: failed to chgrp /var/lib/puppet/server_data to 4294967294: integer 4294967294 too big to convert to `int'; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; change from root to 4294967294 failed: Failed to set owner to '4294967294': integer 4294967294 too big to convert to `int'; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; change from wheel to puppet failed: failed to chgrp /var/lib/puppet/yaml to 4294967294: integer 4294967294 too big to convert to `int'; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; change from root to 4294967294 failed: Failed to set owner to '4294967294': integer 4294967294 too big to convert to `int'; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; change from root to 4294967294 failed: Failed to set owner to '4294967294': integer 4294967294 too big to convert to `int'; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; change from wheel to puppet failed: failed to chgrp /var/lib/puppet/log to 4294967294: integer 4294967294 too big to convert to `int'; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; change from root to 4294967294 failed: Failed to set owner to '4294967294': integer 4294967294 too big to convert to `int'; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; change from wheel to puppet failed: failed to chgrp /var/lib/puppet/rrd to 4294967294: integer 4294967294 too big to convert to `int'; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; change from root to 4294967294 failed: Failed to set owner to '4294967294': integer 4294967294 too big to convert to `int'; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; change from wheel to puppet failed: failed to chgrp /var/lib/puppet/bucket to 4294967294: integer 4294967294 too big to convert to `int'

Regression:

This can be fixed by using the root user to start up puppet:

puppet.conf:
[main]
  user = 0
  group = 0

and starting the puppet master without —mkusers

Notes:

This took me a long time to figure out. It would be nice to have the puppet master work on OS X out of the box using the instructions provided.