[Puppet - Bug #2996] (Unreviewed) Puppetmaster not working with symlinks for puppet data directory

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Issue #2996 has been reported by John Vincent.

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Bug #2996: Puppetmaster not working with symlinks for puppet data directory

• Author: John Vincent
• Status: Unreviewed
• Priority: High
• Assigned to:
• Category:
• Target version:
• Affected version: 0.25.1
• Keywords:
• Branch:

This may be similar to the bug that caused puppetmasterd to get deleted on shutdown via CentOS/Redhat init script.

I decided to create a new LV to store my puppet stuff. This is a whole new project for me so I wanted to think ahead. Once I got the basics working, I shutdown puppetmaster, created the new LV, mounted it on /puppet and then moved the files from /var/lib/puppet to /puppet. I rm'd /var/lib/puppet and create a symlink to /puppet. I started puppetmaster back up and was greeted with a nasty error about CA certificate headers being too long. I wasn't able to find anything that seemed to match the problem exactly.

In the process of verifying permissions and troubleshooting, I realized that /var/lib/puppet was no longer a symlink but instead a new directory with all new files. My original files were still intact in /puppet so I went through the process again. Sure enough, symlink removed and directory recreated. In the end I simply changed the puppet.conf to point to /puppet.

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Issue #2996 has been updated by John Vincent.

Puppetmaster startup:

[root@peer1-chef lib]# /etc/init.d/puppetmaster start
Starting puppetmaster: /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/base.rb:42:in `initialize'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/base.rb:42:in `new'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/base.rb:42:in `read'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/indirector/ssl_file.rb:86:in `find'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/indirector/indirection.rb:213:in `find_in_cache'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/indirector/indirection.rb:189:in `find'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/indirector.rb:51:in `find'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/host.rb:175:in `certificate'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/certificate_authority.rb:241:in `setup'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/certificate_authority.rb:154:in `initialize'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/certificate_authority.rb:31:in `new'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/certificate_authority.rb:31:in `init_singleton_instance'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/cacher.rb:106:in `send'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/cacher.rb:106:in `cached_value'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/cacher.rb:46:in `singleton_instance'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/certificate_authority.rb:45:in `instance'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/application/puppetmasterd.rb:163:in `run_setup'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/application.rb:216:in `run'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/application.rb:306:in `exit_on_fail'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/application.rb:216:in `run'
/usr/sbin/puppetmasterd:66
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/base.rb:42:in `initialize'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/base.rb:42:in `new'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/base.rb:42:in `read'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/indirector/ssl_file.rb:86:in `find'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/indirector/indirection.rb:213:in `find_in_cache'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/indirector/indirection.rb:189:in `find'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/indirector.rb:51:in `find'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/certificate_authority.rb:104:in `crl'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/certificate_authority.rb:144:in `generate_ca_certificate'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/certificate_authority.rb:241:in `setup'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/certificate_authority.rb:154:in `initialize'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/certificate_authority.rb:31:in `new'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/certificate_authority.rb:31:in `init_singleton_instance'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/cacher.rb:106:in `send'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/cacher.rb:106:in `cached_value'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/cacher.rb:46:in `singleton_instance'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/certificate_authority.rb:45:in `instance'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/application/puppetmasterd.rb:163:in `run_setup'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/application.rb:216:in `run'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/application.rb:306:in `exit_on_fail'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/application.rb:216:in `run'
/usr/sbin/puppetmasterd:66
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/key.rb:46:in `initialize': Neither PUB key nor PRIV key:: header too long (OpenSSL::PKey::RSAError)
    from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/key.rb:46:in `new'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/key.rb:46:in `read'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/indirector/ssl_file.rb:86:in `find'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/indirector/indirection.rb:198:in `find'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/indirector.rb:51:in `find'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/host.rb:130:in `key'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/host.rb:170:in `certificate'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/ssl/host.rb:27:in `init_localhost'
     ... 6 levels...
    from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/application.rb:217:in `run'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/application.rb:306:in `exit_on_fail'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/application.rb:217:in `run'
    from /usr/sbin/puppetmasterd:66
                                                           [FAILED]

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Issue #2996 has been updated by John Vincent.

• File puppetmaster.log added

puppetmaster log. I can see where it is intentionally removing the symlink.

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Issue #2996 has been updated by John Vincent.

• Category set to Red Hat

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Bug #2996: Puppetmaster not working with symlinks for puppet data directory

• Author: John Vincent
• Status: Unreviewed
• Priority: High
• Assigned to:

• Category: Red Hat

• Target version:
• Affected version: 0.25.1
• Keywords:
• Branch:

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Issue #2996 has been updated by Peter Meier.

• Priority changed from High to Normal

I think this is duplicated to the bug that puppet manages its own files, hence overwrites the symlink, which I currently can't find. If somebody agrees and/or find the bug, please close this report.

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Bug #2996: Puppetmaster not working with symlinks for puppet data directory

• Author: John Vincent
• Status: Unreviewed

• Priority: Normal

• Assigned to:
• Category: Red Hat

• Target version:
• Affected version: 0.25.1
• Keywords:
• Branch:

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Issue #2996 has been updated by John Vincent.

Yeah I attempted to search for an existing bug but my search-fu wasn't strong enough to suss out a specific match for the issue.

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Bug #2996: Puppetmaster not working with symlinks for puppet data directory

• Author: John Vincent
• Status: Unreviewed

• Priority: Normal
• Assigned to:
• Category: Red Hat

• Target version:
• Affected version: 0.25.1
• Keywords:
• Branch:

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Issue #2996 has been updated by Markus Roberts.

• Status changed from Unreviewed to Investigating
• Target version set to Puppet - 0.25.3

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Bug #2996: Puppetmaster not working with symlinks for puppet data directory

• Author: John Vincent
• Status: Investigating

• Priority: Normal
• Assigned to:
• Category: Red Hat

• Target version: 0.25.3

• Affected version: 0.25.1
• Keywords:
• Branch:

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Issue #2996 has been updated by Thomas Bellman.

That would be feature #2827, which is implemented in 0.25.2.

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Bug #2996: Puppetmaster not working with symlinks for puppet data directory

• Author: John Vincent

• Status: Investigating
• Priority: Normal
• Assigned to:
• Category: Red Hat
• Target version: 0.25.3

• Affected version: 0.25.1
• Keywords:
• Branch:

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Issue #2996 has been updated by Luke Kanies.

• Status changed from Investigating to Duplicate

#2827 provides a workaround, but #650 is the real bug.

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Bug #2996: Puppetmaster not working with symlinks for puppet data directory

• Author: John Vincent
• Status: Duplicate

• Priority: Normal
• Assigned to:
• Category: Red Hat
• Target version: 0.25.3

• Affected version: 0.25.1
• Keywords:
• Branch:

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Issue #2996 has been updated by James Turnbull.

• Target version deleted (Puppet - 0.25.3)

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Bug #2996: Puppetmaster not working with symlinks for puppet data directory

• Author: John Vincent

• Status: Duplicate
• Priority: Normal
• Assigned to:
• Category: Red Hat

• Target version:
• Affected version: 0.25.1
• Keywords:
• Branch: