Activity

From 02/18/2010 to 02/24/2010

02/25/2010

11:28 pm Bug #3295 (Closed): generate() does not set the current working directory intuitively
While building a generate script which utilizes external resources, I've discovered that the working directory within... Paul Lathrop
07:06 pm Bug #3236 (Investigating): err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: No such file or di...
James Turnbull
07:05 pm Bug #3236: err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: No such file or directory - /var/p...
Use pre /pre tags. :) James Turnbull
07:03 pm Bug #3234 (Investigating): err: Could not retrieve catalog: undefined method `fact_merge' for nil...
Markus - any ideas? James Turnbull
07:01 pm Bug #3223 (Needs More Information): Mailalias resource should be create before a maillist
Can you code or pseudo code what you mean? James Turnbull
07:00 pm Bug #3229 (Needs Decision): Case regex are not case-insensitive
James Turnbull
06:59 pm Feature #3228 (Needs Decision): Add puppet.conf for process priority of puppetd
James Turnbull

02/24/2010

01:52 pm Bug #3238: puppetmaster uses to many mysql connections
Or the rails package from lenny-backports. Tim Stoop
01:49 pm Bug #3238 (Closed): puppetmaster uses to many mysql connections
Using the rails package from squeeze fixes the problem (apt-get install -t squeeze rails). Sorry for the noise. Nicolas Szalay
01:12 pm Bug #3238: puppetmaster uses to many mysql connections
I can confirm we have the same problem on a Lenny machine with packages from testing. I've had some email chats with ... Tim Stoop
01:10 pm Bug #3238 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): puppetmaster uses to many mysql connections
Hello,
after upgrading to 0.25.4 this morning (debian package from squeeze on lenny ), I saw that the number of my...
Nicolas Szalay
11:28 am Puppet Dashboard Feature #3237 (Duplicate): Reporting enhancement
I'd like to see a tabular report with nodes based on a particular criteria say perhaps facter variables or something ... Ben Dovaston
11:13 am Feature #1180: nagios types should be able to generate /template definitions/ in nagios
Benjamin Kite wrote:
> This might be simpler than it looks — since the "register" parameter basically indicates whe...
Tim Stoop
02:02 am Refactor #3216 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): String interpolations should be parsed early and...
Markus Roberts
07:51 pm Bug #3018: mysql on Gentoo is installed on every run
The work-around that I've discovered works for me (puppet 0.24.8) is this:
$package_name = $operatingsystem ? {
...
Doug Warner
07:21 pm Bug #2043: up2date provider should split off architecture to --arch parameter
Patch sent to DEV mailing list. James Cammarata
05:44 pm Bug #3236: err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: No such file or directory - /var/p...
Grr sorry about the formatting guys I tried to wrap it in p and code tags, no dice. I am an html-tard. Joe McDonagh
05:43 pm Bug #3236 (Investigating): err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: No such file or di...
On one of my OpenBSD nodes:... Joe McDonagh

02/23/2010

03:03 pm Bug #3018: mysql on Gentoo is installed on every run
My guess is the problem is coming from the part where ProviderPortage gathers the installed packages by looking at th... Doug Warner
02:58 pm Bug #3018: mysql on Gentoo is installed on every run
I'm sure this is some incompatibility between dev-db/mysql and virtual/mysql. The PuppetGentoo page (http://reductiv... Doug Warner
02:03 pm Feature #3178: Resource collections and the 'require' function should be rvalues in the Puppet la...
In the way I have origially asked in the puppet-user group mentioned above: Feature #2084 is exactly what I am lookin... Frederik Wagner
11:52 am Bug #3229: Case regex are not case-insensitive
I think that it's a bit confusing to have case insensitivity be the default as this must be selected in every other r... Trevor Vaughan
11:46 am Feature #2927: Symbolic Modes for the File type.
An updated patch meeting Luke's suggested changes has been posted to the mailing list.
I, unfortunately, do not ha...
Trevor Vaughan
03:39 am Bug #3083: Failed to retrieve current state of resource: undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass
After getting a lot of help from deet, I learned what the problem was. As far as I can tell, in 0.25.x the puppetmas... Patrick Mohr
03:36 am Bug #3083: Failed to retrieve current state of resource: undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass
After getting a lot of help from deet, I learned what the problem was. As far as I can tell, in 0.25.x the puppetmas... Patrick Mohr
12:29 am Bug #3235 (Closed): Puppet only runs once sucessfully with factor libraries
If I wipe clean the lib/factor folder for Puppet will run only the first time. Future runs fail with 'force' to over... Lawrence Ludwig
12:02 am Bug #3234: err: Could not retrieve catalog: undefined method `fact_merge' for nil:NilClass
Hey I forgot to mention in my detail of how I provision, the part where I copy the keys to the new server... Joe McDonagh
12:01 am Bug #3234 (Investigating): err: Could not retrieve catalog: undefined method `fact_merge' for nil...
Ever since I upgraded to .25.4 I keep getting the error on *new* nodes until I restart the *master*... Joe McDonagh
11:02 pm Puppet Dashboard Feature #3232: Dashboard should allow the setting of the node environment
This would be done though external_nodes the dashboard provides but the support in puppet appears to currently be bro... Andrew Forgue
10:04 pm Bug #2043: up2date provider should split off architecture to --arch parameter
Has anyone looked at this patch in the last 11 months? I am running into the same issue (posted to puppet-users abou... James Cammarata
09:01 pm Bug #3221: Recurse generates corrupt query string
Perhaps this is dependant on the ruby version, or the version of another lib?
I migrated my puppet configuration to...
Andre Gemuend
08:22 pm Puppet Dashboard Feature #3233 (Re-opened): Dashboard should allow setting noop per node
This also implies that we can just manage puppet.conf for a node through the dashboard. Dan Bode
08:21 pm Puppet Dashboard Feature #3232 (Duplicate): Dashboard should allow the setting of the node environment
centralized control for specifying a nodes environment would be a nice feature. This may require some changes in pupp... Dan Bode
08:19 pm Puppet Dashboard Feature #3231 (Duplicate): there should be a command line tool for adding nodes
It would be pretty simple
./addnode certname class_element1,class_emement2,... param_group1,param_group2,...
Dan Bode
08:17 pm Puppet Dashboard Feature #3230 (Rejected): parameterization inheritence should be supported
It should be possible to specify groups of parameters and define how different groups inherit values from other groups Dan Bode
04:24 pm Bug #3229: Case regex are not case-insensitive
I think it's best if regular expressions behave as in all other languages. There is no modifier to specify a case-se... Kjetil Torgrim Homme
04:12 pm Bug #3229 (Closed): Case regex are not case-insensitive
By default puppet case or selector statements are case insensitive.
This is done by downcasing both the side of the ...
Brice Figureau

02/22/2010

03:54 pm Feature #3140: Hostnames is puppetmaster logs
It would be very useful to see when a run finished. This info is missing in the puppetmaster's log Daniel Kerwin
01:48 am Bug #3083: Failed to retrieve current state of resource: undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass
I tried running the version of puppetmaster and puppetd on Debian testing (squeeze) and get the same errors.
The p...
Patrick Mohr

02/21/2010

01:27 pm Feature #86: Directory creation fails if parent directory does not exist
Maybe if you write into the documents that if you delete a recurse directory that the parents won't be deleted
Lik...
Mario Verbelen
04:51 pm Bug #3186: require not working as expected
Dan Bode wrote:
> yes, explicitly adding the require => Class[mysql::server] stuff fixes this issue. (orders things ...
Brice Figureau

02/20/2010

09:50 pm Feature #3228 (Accepted): Add puppet.conf for process priority of puppetd
It would be nice (no pun intended) to have a puppet.conf option that would specify the priority of the puppetd proces... Andrew Forgue
09:18 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #3227 (Closed): Could not add class to a node
Steps to recreate:
Create a node, create a class.
Edit node, add class to node, save.
Nothing happens, the c...
Dan Bode
09:14 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #3177: Nodes groups parameter not in external node
I have also run into this. Its not resonable to use the Dashboard as a node classifier until this is fixed. Dan Bode
07:30 pm Facter Bug #3226 (Closed): Facter not stripping trailing whitespace in at least the productname fact
irb(main):001:0> require 'facter'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require 'pp'
=> true
irb(main):003:0> facts = Facter.t...
Andrew Pollock
07:15 pm Bug #3225 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Typo causing test failures
Markus Roberts
07:07 pm Bug #3225 (Closed): Typo causing test failures
A small typoesque error in Luke's events branch (luke:tickets/master/2759) is causing multiple spec failures on the t... Markus Roberts
06:16 pm Bug #3222 (Rejected): maillist can't create anymore lists
bleh, this client was still on 0.25.2 which had this ugly bug. Updating to 0.25.4 fixed the problem... Peter Meier
05:33 pm Bug #3151: Puppet (or ruby-ldap) caches (atleast) ldap group data
In the puppetmaster.log:
Fri Feb 19 01:51:24 -0800 2010 //base/virt_users/User[broker]/gid (err): change from 2020...
Phil Schwartz
04:19 pm Bug #3224 (Rejected): Require statement not followed (parse order issue ?)
I have a define which require on a class
@require => Class["user::${user}"]@
However, this statement does not see...
Bruno Leon

02/19/2010

03:55 pm Bug #3222: maillist can't create anymore lists
Trace:... Peter Meier
03:41 pm Bug #3223 (Accepted): Mailalias resource should be create before a maillist
Maillist provider manages the usual aliases for a maillist as well, but after the maillist creation. However as mailm... Peter Meier
03:38 pm Bug #3222 (Rejected): maillist can't create anymore lists
Given the following manifest:... Peter Meier
12:47 pm Bug #3220 (Closed): cron provider doesn't purge puppet-created cron resources correctly.
Closing issue as fixed. James Turnbull
09:53 am Bug #3221 (Needs More Information): Recurse generates corrupt query string
If I specify a directory to be copied recursively, I get the following error
on the client:
(err): Failed to gen...
Andre Gemuend
08:25 am Bug #3220: cron provider doesn't purge puppet-created cron resources correctly.
I was able to solve the problem by manually deleting all of the old crontab entries on this host. I was then able to ... Rob Terhaar
08:01 am Feature #86: Directory creation fails if parent directory does not exist
Idd it can be confusing and inconsistent
If absent you can't permit to delete also the parents it could be very pain...
Mario Verbelen
06:33 am Bug #3220 (Accepted): cron provider doesn't purge puppet-created cron resources correctly.
Hello-
Bit of background first, we're using CentOS5 machines with puppet/puppetmaster 25.4 from EPEL packages.

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Rob Terhaar
06:11 am Feature #3115 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Convert XMLRPC status() to REST
Markus Roberts
11:43 pm Bug #3185 (Closed): Duplicate constant PUPPETVERSION from rake
Pushed in commit:d532e6d6c64f438de9596b07f1f4f0cb81071446 in branch 0.25.x James Turnbull
11:41 pm Bug #3167 (Closed): Duplicate constant warnings in dpkg.rb
Pushed in commit:c6f02f2ee0c9b14f1106b5f6fa8e61cd92cf6f06 in branch master. James Turnbull
10:44 pm Bug #3083: Failed to retrieve current state of resource: undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass
I was running the server and the client on the same box.
First I ran rm -Rf /var/lib/puppet
I ran the client wi...
Patrick Mohr
10:38 pm Feature #3161 (Accepted): puppetca can only create 1024 bit keys
Luke Kanies
10:38 pm Feature #3138 (Accepted): Improve procedure for enabling rspec tests in modules
I definitely think this is a good idea, but I think overall it's probably best within the context of a tool like gepe... Luke Kanies
10:37 pm Feature #3179 (Accepted): Notify resource should support refreshonly a la exec.
Is this a duplicate of 651? That is, could we reasonably have 'refreshonly' supported everywhere, or is it only reas... Luke Kanies
10:35 pm Bug #3152 (Accepted): resources modifying files should mark these files as managed
I'm nearly positive this is a duplicate of another ticket, worded slightly differently, but I can't find the ticket.
...
Luke Kanies
10:34 pm Feature #3115 (Ready For Checkin): Convert XMLRPC status() to REST
rebased on master Jesse Wolfe
10:32 pm Feature #3176 (Accepted): Extend the File type to manage filesystem capabilities
I'm comfortable with this, but how do these even work? Shell commands? Luke Kanies
08:55 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #3218: NoMethodError in Reports#show
It looks like submitting a report from a 0.24.x client through the 0.25.x server with puppet_dashboard reporting that... Nigel Kersten
07:12 pm Puppet Dashboard Feature #3219 (Accepted): LDAP authentication integration.
It would be immensely useful if Puppet Dashboard would allow for flexible LDAP authentication.
ie, you would defin...
Nigel Kersten
06:55 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #3218 (Closed): NoMethodError in Reports#show
I'm not sure what's triggering this, I just had a few clients report in after a fresh install and this started to hap... Nigel Kersten
06:52 pm Puppet Dashboard Feature #3217 (Closed): Ship a config.ru file for running Puppet-Dashboard under Passenger.
If I have time I'll poke around and try to get one together, but it would be awesome if puppet-dashboard came with a ... Nigel Kersten
06:16 pm Refactor #3216 (Closed): String interpolations should be parsed early and evaluated late
The semantics of string interpolation are complicated by the fact that the actual parsing of the interpolation is don... Markus Roberts
04:13 pm Feature #1180: nagios types should be able to generate /template definitions/ in nagios
This might be simpler than it looks — since the "register" parameter basically indicates whether a resource is supp... Benjamin Kite

02/18/2010

10:23 am Bug #3187 (Accepted): Obscure error message when a = should be a => in a selector
James Turnbull
10:17 am Bug #3187 (Accepted): Obscure error message when a = should be a => in a selector
Hi all,
(Not sure if this is a bug or a refactor, I would consider it a bug myself. Or wishlist.)
When I make a...
Tim Stoop
09:27 am Bug #3083: Failed to retrieve current state of resource: undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass
Patrick Mohr wrote:
> I forgot to add two things. I get the same error if I point it to itself or if I point it at ...
Peter Meier
09:04 am Bug #3186: require not working as expected
Dan Bode wrote:
> yes, explicitly adding the require => Class[mysql::server] stuff fixes this issue. (orders things ...
Brice Figureau
08:49 am Bug #3186: require not working as expected
yes, explicitly adding the require => Class[mysql::server] stuff fixes this issue. (orders things correctly, things w... Dan Bode
08:37 am Bug #3186: require not working as expected
Dan Bode wrote:
> I have an example where require is not correctly specifying a dependency between classes.
[snip]
...
Brice Figureau
08:24 am Feature #3175: Stored configs should use foreign keys
Daniel Kerwin wrote:
> I recently noticed that stored configs don't make use of foreign keys. Is there a reason to d...
Brice Figureau
05:38 am Bug #3083: Failed to retrieve current state of resource: undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass
I forgot to add two things. I get the same error if I point it to itself or if I point it at a working 0.24.8 server... Patrick Mohr
05:36 am Bug #3083: Failed to retrieve current state of resource: undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass
I've got this exact same problem. I'm using the latest Ubuntu Lucid Alpha. I wiped the computer and started clean t... Patrick Mohr
02:07 am Bug #3186 (Accepted): require not working as expected
Brice - if you have a chance. James Turnbull
02:04 am Bug #3186 (Closed): require not working as expected
I have an example where require is not correctly specifying a dependency between classes.... Dan Bode
12:22 am Bug #3159: LDAP groups are being mis-interpretted by RAL
Sorry how do I find the ruby-ldap bindings?
It appears the issue "goes away" after a while. I think the problem is...
Joel Heenan
12:10 am Bug #3168 (Investigating): Cannot disable use of CRL in puppetd
James Turnbull
12:09 am Bug #3159 (Needs More Information): LDAP groups are being mis-interpretted by RAL
hmmm. Are the ruby-ldap bindings present? James Turnbull
12:07 am Bug #3151 (Needs More Information): Puppet (or ruby-ldap) caches (atleast) ldap group data
Can you provide a bit more information and logs on your configuration and the resulting errors? James Turnbull
12:03 am Feature #3176 (Needs Decision): Extend the File type to manage filesystem capabilities
James Turnbull
12:03 am Feature #3170 (Accepted): Please re-introduce checksum => nosum for file resources
James Turnbull
12:02 am Feature #3169 (Needs Decision): Add more debugging to SSL Cert verification
James Turnbull
12:01 am Feature #3175 (Needs Decision): Stored configs should use foreign keys
Brice - you have a comment on this? James Turnbull
12:00 am Bug #3183 (Accepted): puppet-test doesn't work with 0.25.x
James Turnbull
 

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