Re: [Puppet Users] unable to install on Ubuntu 12.04

[Christopher Wood]

Any particular reason that "apt-get install puppet" doesn't work for you?

On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 05:21:25PM -0700, alike wrote:
> This is my first time to install puppet and it's quite frustrating to me.
>  If anyone can help me out that would be great.
> My current installation failed with the below error:
> ** /opt/puppet/bin/erb -T - './erb/send_cert_request.rb.erb' >
> '/opt/puppet/bin/send_cert_request.rb'
> ** chmod a+rx /opt/puppet/bin/send_cert_request.rb
> ** /opt/puppet/bin/erb -T - './erb/receive_signed_cert.rb.erb' >
> '/opt/puppet/bin/receive_signed_cert.rb'
> ** chmod a+rx /opt/puppet/bin/receive_signed_cert.rb
> ** chown -R pe-puppet:pe-puppet /var/opt/lib/pe-puppet/
> /var/opt/lib/pe-puppetmaster/ /var/log/pe-puppet/
> ** /opt/puppet/bin/puppet agent --configprint certname --color=false
> hadoop53
> ** printf "START=true\nDAEMON_OPTS=''\n" > /etc/default/pe-puppet-agent
> ** service pe-puppet-agent start
> pe-puppet-agent: unrecognized service
> I am stuck now and have no idea what to do.
> Here are the steps I took to see this error.
> 1. First time install.  Got host not found error.  I am using a simple
> host name hadoop53.
> 2. I added hadoop53 to my /etc/hosts file.
> 3. Uninstall mysql-server because I don't know the random password
> generated by puppet
> 4. uninstall puppet
> 5. Reinstall and got the error
> Thanks!
> Chang
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[Michael Stahnke]

There is a pe-users list that might be more helpful for this specific
issue. Feel free to post your issue there as well.

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[Denmat]

Hi,

When you do the install, there should be an answers file generated in the current directory. Check that for passwords (from memory).

In your current case I would uninstall, remove mysqld-server, remove /var/lib/mysql and /opt/puppet and /etc/puppetlabs (this is assuming nothing else used the db).

Then try your install again. Check the answers file.

See how that goes.
Den

[alike]

I consulted finch & justinstoller from IRC and they said something evil with dpkg and my machine is in a state of un-reinstallable.  justinstoller suggested me restore my machine to the previous state, but I don't have a easy way to do that.

So I am giving up now and trying "apt-get install puppet".  The installation is much easier and it's working now.

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[martin.n...@visiercorp.com]

I know this post is 1 year old, but I was having a problem just like this and this was the first result on google. I'm just posting my experience in hopes that it might help someone else.

I am using puppet enterprise 2.8.1 and installing the agents on a mix of Ubuntu 10.04 & 12.04 machines. The agents needed to be re-installed and whenever I tried I kept getting this "pe-puppet-agent: unrecognized service" message in the install log. 

My solution to re-installing the agent is to run the 'puppet-enterprise-uninstaller' script and run 'apt-get purge pe-puppet-agent' a combination of the allowed me to install the puppet agent successfully. However, the order of the two actions was different between the two versions. In 10.04, the purge command needs to be run before the uninstall script, otherwise it will fail.