Unable to get initial example

[Rinaldo]

Hello,

My first post, just joined the group. Thanks for the well thought out
approach in puppet. I am trying to get the simple example from the
getting started guide to work.

I am on Solaris(x86) and using an older version from Blastwave. I am
considering doing a package for Sun's new IPS packaging system. I need
to understand how it all works before I package it up. I have two
nodes and I get the following errors, I have the host names in /etc/
hosts

bash-3.2# /opt/csw/bin/puppetmasterd --verbose
info: Starting server for Puppet version 0.23.2
info: Parsed manifest in 0.01 seconds
info: Listening on port 8140
notice: Starting Puppet server version 0.23.2
err: Could not find ndc2test02.network.com with names
ndc2test02.network.com, ndc2test02

bash-3.2# puppetd --server ndc2test01.network.com --verbose
warning: Individual config files are deprecated; remove /etc//opt/csw/
puppet/puppetd.conf and use puppet.conf
notice: Starting Puppet client version 0.23.2
err: Could not retrieve configuration: Could not find
ndc2test02.network.com with names ndc2test02.network.com, ndc2test02
err: Could not retrieve configuration: Cannot connect to server and
there is no cached configuration

When I try to start the master on the Mac I get the following error

Got 9 failure(s) while initializing: Tried to get name field for silly
id 4294967294; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; change
from absent to directory failed: Could not find user(s) 4294967294;
Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; Tried to get name
field for silly id 4294967294; change from absent to directory failed:
Could not find user(s) 4294967294; Tried to get name field for silly
id 4294967294; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; change
from absent to directory failed: Could not find user(s) 4294967294

Thanks

[James Turnbull]

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Rinaldo wrote:
> I am on Solaris(x86) and using an older version from Blastwave. I am
> considering doing a package for Sun's new IPS packaging system. I need
> to understand how it all works before I package it up. I have two
> nodes and I get the following errors, I have the host names in /etc/
> hosts
>
> bash-3.2# /opt/csw/bin/puppetmasterd --verbose
> info: Starting server for Puppet version 0.23.2
> info: Parsed manifest in 0.01 seconds
> info: Listening on port 8140
> notice: Starting Puppet server version 0.23.2
> err: Could not find ndc2test02.network.com with names
> ndc2test02.network.com, ndc2test02

Okay - 0.23.2 is reasonably old. I'd recommend something in the 0.24.x
releases - the latest being 0.24.7.

> bash-3.2# puppetd --server ndc2test01.network.com --verbose
> warning: Individual config files are deprecated; remove /etc//opt/csw/
> puppet/puppetd.conf and use puppet.conf
> notice: Starting Puppet client version 0.23.2
> err: Could not retrieve configuration: Could not find
> ndc2test02.network.com with names ndc2test02.network.com, ndc2test02
> err: Could not retrieve configuration: Cannot connect to server and
> there is no cached configuration

Remove the puppetd.conf configuration file. All configuration now goes
in the puppet.conf file.

Do you have a node defined? Can you show us your manifests and
configuration?

> When I try to start the master on the Mac I get the following error
>
> Got 9 failure(s) while initializing: Tried to get name field for silly
> id 4294967294; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; change
> from absent to directory failed: Could not find user(s) 4294967294;
> Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; Tried to get name
> field for silly id 4294967294; change from absent to directory failed:
> Could not find user(s) 4294967294; Tried to get name field for silly
> id 4294967294; Tried to get name field for silly id 4294967294; change
> from absent to directory failed: Could not find user(s) 4294967294
>

This is a known bug on 0.23.2:

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/ticket/1169

It's fixed in later versions.

Regards

James Turnbull

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[Gary Law]

2009/1/8 Rinaldo <digital...@gmail.com>

Hello,

 My first post, just joined the group. Thanks for the well thought out
approach in puppet. I am trying to get the simple example from the
getting started guide to work.

I am on Solaris(x86) and using an older version from Blastwave. I am
considering doing a package for Sun's new IPS packaging system. I need
to understand how it all works before I package it up. I have two
nodes and I get the following errors, I have the host names in /etc/
hosts

bash-3.2# /opt/csw/bin/puppetmasterd --verbose
info: Starting server for Puppet version 0.23.2
info: Parsed manifest in 0.01 seconds
info: Listening on port 8140
notice: Starting Puppet server version 0.23.2
err: Could not find ndc2test02.network.com with names
ndc2test02.network.com, ndc2test02

bash-3.2# puppetd --server ndc2test01.network.com --verbose
warning: Individual config files are deprecated; remove /etc//opt/csw/
puppet/puppetd.conf and use puppet.conf
notice: Starting Puppet client version 0.23.2
err: Could not retrieve configuration: Could not find
ndc2test02.network.com with names ndc2test02.network.com, ndc2test02
err: Could not retrieve configuration: Cannot connect to server and
there is no cached configuration

it looks like a naming problem; what is the output of /opt/csw/bin/facter on both hosts?

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[Rinaldo]

I upgraded to the latest version and it all works on a release of Open
Solaris.

I posted a short blog about the issues with initial setup. I would
suggest or like to offer
putting some expect scripts in the distribution or someone else can
rewrite it with
ruby, it would be nice if users could just list n machines and get the
initial install
of puppet accomplished in a few minutes. I am still considering
making packages
for the new OpenSolaris packaging solution.

The Solaris release at balstwave is way out of date. I am trying to
contact the
owner.

Thanks to everyone for the very excellent support.

Rinaldo

[Andrew Shafer]

Rinaldo,

You might want to coordinate with Martin.  I know he is building Puppet packages for Solaris. 

I'm not sure where/if he is making them available, but I know he's a big fan of Solaris for some reason... :)

Cheers,
Andrew

[macbrass]

I'm having the exact same problem getting the initial puppet install
going on a Mac. I've tried installing it from the packages on Nigel's
site as well as with Ruby Gems, both times on a completely clean
system using the latest build (0.24.7). I get the same error messages
about "Got 9 failure(s) while initializing: Tried to get name field
for silly id 4294967294;" etc.

Any thoughts on why this might still be going on? I'm excited about
Puppet. I think it will be great for our OS X clusters and
workstations so I'd love to get this working.

Tim

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[Luke Kanies]

On Feb 6, 2009, at 10:45 AM, macbrass wrote:

>
> I'm having the exact same problem getting the initial puppet install
> going on a Mac. I've tried installing it from the packages on Nigel's
> site as well as with Ruby Gems, both times on a completely clean
> system using the latest build (0.24.7). I get the same error messages
> about "Got 9 failure(s) while initializing: Tried to get name field
> for silly id 4294967294;" etc.
>
> Any thoughts on why this might still be going on? I'm excited about
> Puppet. I think it will be great for our OS X clusters and
> workstations so I'd love to get this working.

This is because OS X uses a 'nobody' user with an id of '-2', but only
some of the OS X tools produce negative numbers, the others produce
the unsigned int, which is 64bit, so you get this gigantic positive
number instead of a small negative number.

If you run with --debug, you'll see which files are failing. Most
likely, those are owned by 'nobody' or something similar, so you could
chown them to root and probably be up and running.

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[TomTom]

Hello All,
The fix for me was to create a new puppet user on the system with the
System Preferences User Create tool.

I fooled around with the command line dscl user creation tool, but
could never get it working, so I punted and used the GUI.
Thanks everyone for all your hard work.
-Tom