Facter : no operatingsystemrelease on CentOS 7

[Claude]

Hi,

I'm testing the Openstack CentOS 7 image with Puppet 3.7.5. My problem is with Facter not identifying correctly the operating system :

[root@test2 vendor_ruby]# facter --version
2.4.4

[root@test2 vendor_ruby]# ruby --version
ruby 2.0.0p598 (2014-11-13) [x86_64-linux]

[root@test2 vendor_ruby]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 (Source)

[root@test2 vendor_ruby]# uname -a
Linux centos2 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 6 11:36:42 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[root@test2 vendor_ruby]# facter operatingsystemrelease -d
Confine raised NoMethodError undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for operatingsystemrelease
value for operatingsystemrelease is still nil

[root@test2 ~]# facter os
{"name"=>"RedHat", "family"=>"RedHat"}

I noticed that the CentOS image doesn't contain the command lsb_release so I installed it (with yum install redhat-lsb-core) and ran the test again : now I get more detail in the os variable but operatingsystemrelease is always empty:

[root@test2 ~]# facter operatingsystemrelease -d
Confine raised NoMethodError undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for operatingsystemrelease
value for operatingsystemrelease is still nil

[root@test2 ~]# facter os -d
{"name"=>"RedHat", "family"=>"RedHat", "lsb"=>{"distcodename"=>"Core", "distid"=>"CentOS", "distdescription"=>"CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core) ", "release"=>":core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch", "distrelease"=>"7.1.1503", "majdistrelease"=>"7", "minordistrelease"=>"1"}}

[Poil]

Hi,


http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2015-April/021010.html

https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/FACT-893

Just run yum update

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[Claude]

I just found out about the source of the bug : https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/FACT-893.

Indeed a yum update solves the problem but since I must run puppet before that, I found the following workaroud is also valid:

ln -s -f /etc/centos-release /etc/redhat-release

Thanks

[Poil]

If you install from an ISO, redownload it

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