Puppet

03/17/2010

10:16 pm Feature #3377 (Accepted): parsedfile stops processing all entries if one resource is missing a re...

consider the following puppet code:... Dan Bode

09:44 pm Bug #3365: 100% CPU usage

Peter Meier wrote:
> some more information and discussion is found in this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/pu... Brice Figureau

09:41 pm Bug #3376 (Investigating): No puppetdoc for subclass preceded by if block

Brice Figureau

03/16/2010

04:56 pm Bug #3376 (Investigating): No puppetdoc for subclass preceded by if block

This is a followup to #2364. (I did actually mention this case at the bottom of #2364 description, but it seems only... Alan Harder

04:05 pm Bug #2892: Improve performance when caching catalog in puppet agent.

Luke Kanies wrote:
> I've got a partial branch up. This handles retaining the serialized data all the way through t... Peter Meier

02:52 pm Bug #3234: err: Could not retrieve catalog: undefined method `fact_merge' for nil:NilClass

No Love for this bug? Just deployed two new nodes today and got the same problem. Anything I can submit to help? They... Joe McDonagh

12:41 pm Bug #3362: splay drift occurs when passenger/mongrel get too much load.

Can we have an option to disable this change? We have adapted to how splay
currently works and our client checkins ... Mark Plaksin

07:05 am Feature #3375 (Accepted): parsedfile should consider order when writing new records.

I noticed the following behavior when I was trying to implement sudoers with parsedfile.
Order of entries in sudoe... Dan Bode

12:16 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #3374 (Accepted): Large reports cause extremely slow requests

Rein Henrichs

12:15 am Feature #2896 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): `puppet parser validate` does not check resource ...

Dan - I think this actually already works this way in the current testing branch, because of the changes I made to th... Luke Kanies

12:15 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #3374 (Closed): Large reports cause extremely slow requests

As the YAML reports become larger, SQL queries on the reports table begin to take an unacceptable amount of time. Ref... Rein Henrichs

12:14 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #3358 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Recent Node Reports table column is too small for hos...

Rein Henrichs

12:14 am Feature #2957: Classes should support an 'extends' functionality

No way this is happening in rowlf. Luke Kanies

12:03 am Feature #3096 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Puppet should have a pure-ruby internal DSL

Guess this missed the round of tickets ready for testing. Luke Kanies

11:53 pm Feature #1461: Module metadata should support platform specification

What should the syntax for this look like? It'd have to be parse-time, but I can't think of a clean syntax. Somethi... Luke Kanies

11:49 pm Refactor #3373 (Closed): Puppet should stream files directly to disk

We currently load files into memory rather than streaming them to disk. It's much more memory efficient to stream th... Luke Kanies

11:26 pm Feature #2140 (Duplicate): Add support for external data files

Closing in favor of #2953, since it has more information. Luke Kanies

11:18 pm Bug #3362: splay drift occurs when passenger/mongrel get too much load.

Backport of the change on http://github.com/MarkusQ/puppet/tree/ticket/0.24.8/3362
Markus Roberts

11:12 pm Bug #3362: splay drift occurs when passenger/mongrel get too much load.

Branch up for testing; minimal modification to cause 1/4 splaylimit resplaying with each run to prevent clumping.
Markus Roberts

10:30 pm Bug #3369: Puppetmaster not closing database connections

rubygem-rails.noarch 2.1.1-2.el5 Benjamin Kite

09:42 pm Bug #1223 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): rug not on OpenSuSE 10.3 anymore

Markus Roberts

09:27 pm Bug #3372 (Closed): Replace FileBucket Dipper with more idiomatic calls

FileBucket Dipper (as of Rowlf) is a thin wrapper around Indirector that emulates the old XMLRPC-era API. It should b... Jesse Wolfe

09:08 pm Bug #3092: No entries means no security?

That would absolutely be OK by me, yes. Thanks!
-Robin Robin Powell

09:04 pm Bug #3092 (Accepted): No entries means no security?

I agree, this is a bug.
Is it sufficient to just allow a 'deny *' statement in the configuration? That is to say,... Luke Kanies

09:03 pm Bug #3365 (Investigating): 100% CPU usage

James Turnbull

09:03 pm Bug #3363 (Accepted): Puppet Master webrick server doesn't work with Ruby Enterprise Edition

James Turnbull

08:59 pm Bug #3369 (Needs More Information): Puppetmaster not closing database connections

What rails version? James Turnbull

08:58 pm Bug #3370 (Accepted): YAML read/write locks broken on OpenBSD

James Turnbull

08:51 pm Feature #3371 (Accepted): FileBucket should not keep files in memory

It should not be necessary to load entire files into memory to checksum them. Jesse Wolfe

06:28 pm Bug #3370 (Needs More Information): YAML read/write locks broken on OpenBSD

commit:"45144a1b9da2839fd9f8a182a8f82ecb06e17292" that introduces read and write locks broke puppet on OpenBSD.
Wh... Robert Nagy

05:19 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #3322 (Accepted): Graphs do not obey config.time_zone setting

Looks like it isn't fixed after all. Rein Henrichs

05:18 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #3353 (Closed): Nodes class and group references are removed when reports are submitted using...

Rein Henrichs

03/15/2010

04:10 pm Bug #3369 (Duplicate): Puppetmaster not closing database connections

I'm getting accumulating database connections which eventually overflow the connection limit on the MySQL server …
... Benjamin Kite

04:07 pm Bug #3368 (Duplicate): Cron names/titles not unique between users

1. created a cronjob with puppet name "joe" belonging to user "puppet"
2. changed cronjob user to "root" in manifes... Benjamin Kite

03:37 pm Facter Feature #3367 (Needs More Information): Path to ssh key should be configurable

It would be great if we could specify the location(s) that facter looks for
ssh keys.
Currently ssh.rd looks for ... Mark Plaksin

09:21 am Bug #2590: --modulepath ignored

Hi,
Same problem here with passenger 2.2.5 and puppet 0.25.4.
Instead of the --trace option, I use the --ignorecach... Aurélien Cedeyn

01:56 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #3322: Graphs do not obey config.time_zone setting

Using: config.time_zone='Sydney'.
Correct time is still displayed in list of reports, but graphs still display in UT... Karl Bowden

01:37 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #3353: Nodes class and group references are removed when reports are submitted using live rep...

Working well now thank you. Tested with multiple groups, classes, and parameters, with both manual report importing a... Karl Bowden

03/14/2010

04:07 pm Bug #3360: Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request configurable

Apparently this code **is** used for older clients, I tried with puppet-0.24.8. As a result, there are is an inconsis... Claus Divossen

03:59 pm Bug #1125: incorrect parsing of range after DST change

DST just happened again and I'm now seeing this issue.... Evan Borgstrom

01:12 pm Bug #3360: Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request configurable

What to do with the CSR when "replace_certs" is off/false? I agree with Jeff's suggestion to inform the client that i... Claus Divossen

06:43 am Bug #1656 (Re-opened): Puppet rpm/yum handler cannot deal with 2 packages with the same name and ...

These bugs can't be duplicates of each other. One of them has to stay open. :) (or get closed for some other reason... David Miller

03/13/2010

11:43 am Bug #3365: 100% CPU usage

some more information and discussion is found in this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thre... Peter Meier

10:06 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #3003: rake install failing on debian lenny x86

Can you try upgrading dashboard to latest git master? Rein Henrichs

10:05 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #3322 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Graphs do not obey config.time_zone setting

fixed in ad6704b0715e8edf6e6c769dbc308671a2daa14a on master, please confirm. Rein Henrichs

10:00 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #3353 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Nodes class and group references are removed when rep...

fixed in da48338cc8fe0fa4d016c8ff85379741b8d0a93f of master, please confirm Rein Henrichs

09:59 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #3298 (Needs Decision): reports.report datatype leads to data loss

Rein Henrichs

09:59 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #3298 (Accepted): reports.report datatype leads to data loss

When we switch to Puppet's new reporting REST interface, this problem should go away. In the meantime, I'm not sure o... Rein Henrichs

09:58 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #3358 (Tests Insufficient): Recent Node Reports table column is too small for hostnames

Fixed in e20bd0bdef2fa8b6ec330c5f44c6ce0aa0a30d95 of master Rein Henrichs

09:55 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #3027 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): "undefined method `parameter_path' " in _timeline_eve...

Should be fixed in master Rein Henrichs

09:54 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #3050 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Date format on graphs is inconsistent with rest of app

Fixed in a010410b5a76fa5789db49b9dc404a81428ff687 in master Rein Henrichs

06:58 pm Bug #3360 (Accepted): Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request confi...

Ok, I'll accept Nigel's proposed solution. We make this replacement behaviour configurable, by default it's on, but ... Luke Kanies

06:01 pm Bug #3366 (Code Insufficient): --tags '' causes runtime error 'undefined method `each' for true:T...

I'm not terribly fond of this fix.
For one, it hard-codes 'tags' support into Settings, but it also just perpetuat... Luke Kanies

03/12/2010

02:48 pm Bug #2899: puppetd checks client files recursively even if they aren't specified

Josh Endries wrote:
> We stumbled upon a puppetd using 100% CPU and 12 GB of RAM a few days ago. We have a DB app in... Brice Figureau

12:59 pm Bug #3365: 100% CPU usage

My apologies, seems like I missed that one.
Some more information: whatever Puppetd is doing during the 100% CPU u... Dieter Van de Walle

10:50 am Bug #3365: 100% CPU usage

Dieter Van de Walle wrote:
> Some more information from the --summarize option I just discovered (since it is undocu... Peter Meier

10:41 am Bug #3365: 100% CPU usage

Some more information from the --summarize option I just discovered (since it is undocumented):
Changes:
... Dieter Van de Walle

09:40 am Bug #3366 (Needs Decision): --tags '' causes runtime error 'undefined method `each' for true:True...

James Turnbull

09:35 am Bug #3366: --tags '' causes runtime error 'undefined method `each' for true:TrueClass'

Sorry James, should have uploaded the patch rather than putting it in the comment - redmine mangled it. Attached now.... Mike Pountney

05:34 am Bug #3366 (Code Insufficient): --tags '' causes runtime error 'undefined method `each' for true:T...

Hi Mike - just testing you code and I get:
"undefined local variable or method `tags' for #<Puppet::Util::Settings... James Turnbull

05:17 am Bug #3366 (Accepted): --tags '' causes runtime error 'undefined method `each' for true:TrueClass'

James Turnbull

03:05 am Bug #3083: Failed to retrieve current state of resource: undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass

I'm seeing this problem also on Ubuntu 10.04, but my DNS (forward and reverse) is correct. Andrew Pollock

02:15 am Bug #3366 (Closed): --tags '' causes runtime error 'undefined method `each' for true:TrueClass'

Running:
puppetd -v -o --tags '' --no-daemonize
results in:
err: Got an uncaught exception of type NoMethodE... Mike Pountney

12:57 am Bug #3365: 100% CPU usage

Well it finished after all:
notice: Finished catalog run in 2734.31 seconds
:) Dieter Van de Walle

12:22 am Bug #3364 (Duplicate): tidy does not work with age=>0 (maybe not at all)

This is clearly a duplicate of #3162. I will verify that its fixed in HEAD. I somehow missed that bug when I searched... Dan Bode

12:01 am Bug #3365 (Needs More Information): 100% CPU usage

Hi,
I've been experimenting with Puppet for a few days now, and overall I'm pretty impressed on how easy Puppet ma... Dieter Van de Walle

10:10 pm Bug #3223 (Accepted): Mailalias resource should be create before a maillist

James Turnbull

10:09 pm Bug #3362 (Investigating): splay drift occurs when passenger/mongrel get too much load.

James Turnbull

10:07 pm Bug #3364 (Needs More Information): tidy does not work with age=>0 (maybe not at all)

Is this fixed by #3162? James Turnbull

07:05 pm Bug #3364: tidy does not work with age=>0 (maybe not at all)

actually, this works if I specify
recurse => true
what is the expected behavior of tidy without recurse => tru... Dan Bode

07:03 pm Bug #3364 (Duplicate): tidy does not work with age=>0 (maybe not at all)

the following example does not act as I expect:
root@ubuntu:/tmp# cd /tmp
root@ubuntu:/tmp# mkdir blah2
root@ubu... Dan Bode

06:06 pm Facter Feature #2066: Make units optional

We should add the new unitless versions as something like 'memory_mb' to avoid breaking backwards compatibility.
Anonymous

05:30 pm Bug #3363 (Closed): Puppet Master webrick server doesn't work with Ruby Enterprise Edition

While debugging, I notice that Ruby Enterprise Edition does not work correctly with puppetmasterd when running within... Jeff McCune

05:20 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #3003: rake install failing on debian lenny x86

this is my version
cat VERSION
0.2.1
unixteam unixteam

05:04 pm Bug #2837: Change in report formatting warning message to debug

Can we get this changed from a warning to a more appropriate debug level?
It really doesn't seem desirable that a ... Nigel Kersten

03/11/2010

02:40 pm Bug #3238: puppetmaster uses to many mysql connections

Using mysql under ubuntu, upgraded to rails 2.2.3-1 and it still leaked a ton of connections and trashed the server. Dis Connect

01:53 pm Bug #1525: local host fails to sync with mongrel/apache2

I was *just* about to close this bug not having seen this problem in months when it re-appeared *out of the blue* (I ... martin krafft

12:32 pm Bug #3238: puppetmaster uses to many mysql connections

Confirmed with postgresql too: Rails 2.1.0-7 leaks connections, upgrading to 2.2.3-1~bpo50+1 has fixed the problem. David Schmitt

08:46 am Bug #3173 (Investigating): Puppetmasterd cannot find classes after restart

Basically, what happens is this:
The production module is instantiated somewhere early in the puppetmaster startup p... Christian Hofstaedtler

03:51 am Bug #3362 (Needs More Information): splay drift occurs when passenger/mongrel get too much load.

not sure if this counts as a bug...
I could not concretely prove the assumptions below. I did some investigation a... Dan Bode

10:44 pm Bug #3360 (Needs Decision): Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request...

Markus Roberts wrote:
> I am lowering this to normal, since the root of the objection is based in the known problems... Jeff McCune

09:58 pm Bug #3223: Mailalias resource should be create before a maillist

James Turnbull wrote:
> Can you code or pseudo code what you mean?
the aliases generated here: http://github.com/red... Peter Meier

09:07 pm Bug #3360 (Accepted): Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request confi...

Markus Roberts

09:05 pm Bug #3101: Unhelpful message "undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass" when DNS misconfigured

I can also reproduce the SSL error Martin got, but when using my fqdn as the server name, I still get the following. ... Brian Keifer

07:39 pm Bug #3101: Unhelpful message "undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass" when DNS misconfigured

So the fix for young players was specifying in puppet.conf:... James Turnbull

07:35 pm Bug #2238: Fileserver under Apache/Mongrel chokes on recursive directories

Yikes, this ticket turned into quite the cluster. I'm on .25.4 now with the same setup I tried with .25.0 so one of t... Joe McDonagh

07:33 pm Bug #3101: Unhelpful message "undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass" when DNS misconfigured

I think it would make sense to convert this bug report into a wishlist requesting better error reporting. martin krafft

07:32 pm Bug #3101: Unhelpful message "undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass" when DNS misconfigured

I found my problem with ruby debug mode. Running puppetd with ruby --debug is enlightening ("there is other code out ... martin krafft

07:32 pm Bug #2238: Fileserver under Apache/Mongrel chokes on recursive directories

I'm having the issue unfortunately.
err: //apt/Modules_dir[apt]/File[/var/lib/puppet/modules/apt]: Failed to gener... Dis Connect

06:56 pm Bug #3101: Unhelpful message "undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass" when DNS misconfigured

Just use < pre > and < /pre> tags. Works fine for me. I've updated your entry. James Turnbull

06:43 pm Bug #3084: Potential issue with exec and pson

Fixed; definitely appears that the problem is with untitled resources.
select hosts.name from resources,hosts... Eric Eisenhart

06:27 pm Bug #3084: Potential issue with exec and pson

I updated my puppet master from 0.24.8 (EPEL package) to 0.25.4 (also EPEL). With a 0.24.8 client there are no probl... Eric Eisenhart

06:18 pm Bug #3360: Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request configurable

There is no valid reason, however people who administer machines are humans, and are prone to do stupid things like c... Nigel Kersten

06:15 pm Bug #3360: Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request configurable

Should that be:
> This also actually provokes another problem with 0.24.x clients *that are misconfigured.*
In ... Markus Roberts

05:55 pm Bug #3360: Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request configurable

This also actually provokes another problem with 0.24.x clients.
Client A has certname "foo".
It connects to a pu... Nigel Kersten

05:42 pm Bug #3101 (Re-opened): Unhelpful message "undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass" when DNS m...

Just need to chime in: I am trying to set up puppetmaster&puppet on my laptop for easy offline hacking, and I am runn... martin krafft

05:27 pm Bug #3360: Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request configurable

Nigel Kersten wrote:
> How difficult is it to make this configurable?
>
> [...]
>
> Then the two groups of use... Peter Meier

04:50 pm Bug #3360: Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request configurable

How difficult is it to make this configurable?
Given the two classes of users, I feel that the default behavior sh... Nigel Kersten

04:37 pm Bug #3360: Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request configurable

I'm of mixed minds about this, but to provide background:
The reason for this change was that this fixes one of th... Luke Kanies

04:37 pm Bug #3360: Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request configurable

Yes, multiple certificates *could* map to the same node, if you were distributing certificates out of band.
If you... Nigel Kersten

04:28 pm Bug #3360: Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request configurable

> Prior to this you could rely upon a 1:1 mapping between certificate names and nodes unless you did something stup... Markus Roberts

04:16 pm Bug #3360: Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request configurable

I understand your point. You're still overwriting an identity however.
Prior to this you could rely upon a 1:1 map... Nigel Kersten

04:09 pm Bug #3360: Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request configurable

> However, this is an enormous behaviour change from 0.24.x that wasn't called out in release notes or docs at all af... Markus Roberts

03/10/2010

03:01 pm Bug #3360: Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request configurable

I understand the point of view that autosign is hardly a secure environment in any situation.
However, this is an ... Nigel Kersten

11:40 am Bug #3360: Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request configurable

Markus Roberts wrote:
> Another point, the certificate that are being overwritten are effectively a cache copy; th... Claus Divossen

06:41 am Bug #3360: Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request configurable

I am lowering this to normal, since the root of the objection is based in the known problems with autosign (which you... Markus Roberts

06:36 am Bug #3360: Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request configurable

Okay on reflection I agree with Markus - autosign invalidates a lot of security. What exactly should we do here in t... James Turnbull

06:35 am Bug #2890 (Closed): Puppetd: signed certificate retrieval "Retrieved certificate does not match p...

Closing in lieu of #3360. James Turnbull

06:25 am Bug #3360 (Needs Decision): Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request...

This was by design and IIRC was discussed on the list at the time.
The base assumption here, that you can have any... Markus Roberts

06:03 am Bug #3360 (Accepted): Add a flag to make puppet ca behavior on receipt of duplicate request confi...

Markus - I count this as potentially a security show-stopper. James Turnbull

03:54 am Facter Feature #3361 (Closed): install.rb script needs to be updated when facter starts having config dirs.

so the platform packagers who use it can change the default directories to appropriate native platform locations Nigel Kersten

02:36 am Bug #2848: Certdnsnames apply during certificate signing rather than CSR creation

I ran into this today.
- load balancer with 2 puppetmasters
- both puppetmasters use the same CA
- both puppetmaste... Dan Bode

01:02 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #3353: Nodes class and group references are removed when reports are submitted using live rep...

Actually this also happens when using @reports = store@ and then importing with @rake reports:import@
It goes throug... Karl Bowden

12:26 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #3302 (Closed): pagination breaks external node

Rein Henrichs

12:25 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #3227 (Closed): Could not add class to a node

Rein Henrichs