Jira (PUP-4045) Failed to generate additional resources using 'eval_generate': Cannot manage files of type socket

redmine.exporter (JIRA)

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PUP-4045

Failed to generate additional resources using 'eval_generate': Cannot manage files of type socket

Issue Type:	Bug
Assignee:	Unassigned
Created:	2015/02/26 1:58 AM
Labels:	redmine
Priority:	Normal
Reporter:	redmine.exporter

Using a slightly modified version of the code from "Pro Puppet" I am getting the following error:

Jun 13 01:36:33 media puppet-agent[18196]: (/Stage[main]/Mysql::Config/File[mysql_data_dir]) Failed to generate additional resources using 'eval_generate': Cannot manage files of type socket

The file resource in mysql/manifests/config.pp is as follows:

file

{ "mysql_data_dir" : path => $mysql::params::data_directory, group => "mysql", owner => "mysql", recurse => true, require => File["my.cnf"], }

And for this particular $operatingsystem (Fedora) the value for $data_directory in mysql/manifests/params.pp is :

$data_directory = "/var/lib/mysql"

By default mysql on a Fedora system places its mysql.sock file in the data directory but it appears when a you try and change the permissions recursively, puppet doesn't know what to do with the socket file.

I can place the socket file elsewhere as a work around but I believe that puppet needs to ignore socket files when changing permissions.

[root@media modules]# puppet --version
2.6.8
[root@media modules]# puppet master --version
2.6.8

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Peter Souter (JIRA)

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May 6, 2015, 6:45:21 AM5/6/15

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PUP-4045

Failed to generate additional resources using 'eval_generate': Cannot manage files of type socket

Change By:	Peter Souter

Using a slightly modified version of the code from "Pro Puppet" I am getting the following error:

{code}

Jun 13 01:36:33 media puppet-agent[18196]: (/Stage[main]/Mysql::Config/File[mysql_data_dir]) Failed to generate additional resources using 'eval_generate': Cannot manage files of type socket

{code}

The file resource in mysql/manifests/config.pp is as follows:

{code}

    file { "mysql_data_dir" :
        path => $mysql::params::data_directory,
        group => "mysql",
        owner => "mysql",
        recurse => true,
        require => File["my.cnf"],
    }

{code}

And for this particular $operatingsystem (Fedora) the value for $data_directory in mysql/manifests/params.pp is :

{code}
$data_directory = "/var/lib/mysql"
{code}

By default mysql on a Fedora system places its mysql.sock file in the data directory but it appears when a you try and change the permissions recursively, puppet doesn't know what to do with the socket file.

I can place the socket file elsewhere as a work around but I believe that puppet needs to ignore socket files when changing permissions.

{code}

    [root@media modules]# puppet --version
    2.6.8
    [root@media modules]# puppet master --version
    2.6.8

{code}

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Peter Souter (JIRA)

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May 6, 2015, 6:47:21 AM5/6/15

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Re: Failed to generate additional resources using 'eval_generate': Cannot manage files of type socket

As someone who encountered this recently, and needed to use the workaround of adding the socket files to the `ignore` parameter, you can find out what files are sockets with `tree` easy enough:

$ tree --inodes -F | grep =

│       │   ├── [2458821]  S_TCP=

So I needed to add this to my code:

ignore    => ['S_TCP']

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Stephen Gelman (JIRA)

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Apr 18, 2017, 1:47:02 AM4/18/17

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Re: Failed to generate additional resources using 'eval_generate': Cannot manage files of type socket

I couldn't use ignore because it only matches the filename, not the patch and the socket was a non-unique name. I worked around it locally by adding an empty "when socket" case here:

https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/3daa532/lib/puppet/file_serving/metadata.rb#L121

I don't think this is an acceptable solution long term so I am not going to PR it but i wanted to throw it out there in case it helps someone. One solution might be to change ignore to allow it to match on a path instead of just a filename.

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Adrien Thebo (JIRA)

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May 15, 2017, 7:57:03 PM5/15/17

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Failed to generate additional resources using 'eval_generate': Cannot manage files of type socket

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Re: Failed to generate additional resources using 'eval_generate': Cannot manage files of type socket

Peter Souter you're a person that knows things, what's the correct behavior in this case? We can definitely solve this problem but we don't know what behavior is correct.