user resource on darwin throws "undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass"

[Peter K]

I'm getting this error when I try and create a user on osx:

'''Error: Failed to apply catalog: undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass'''

My code looks like this:

'''  class fakeadmin2 {

  user { 'fakeadmin2':

    name    => 'fakeadmin2',

    ensure  => 'present',

    uid       => '504',

    gid       => '501',

    home   => '/Users/fakeadmin2',

  }

}'''

ubuntu server package: puppetserver    2.8.0-1puppetlabs1

puppet master 4.10.9

puppet agent version 4.10.9

Any help with how to debug this would be helpful too.

thx

[Peter K]

The puppet agent is on a mac with 10.13.4.

[Henrik Lindberg]

A stack trace is required to have any guess at what is going wrong. (Run
puppet apply with --trace)

Also check here (https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/4.10/release_notes.html)
for release notes for versions newer that 4.10.9 (think we are up to 12
now).


- henrik

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[Martin Alfke]

Hi Peter,

please check the locale setting and set it to en_US.UTF-8

export LANG=en_US.UTF.8

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[Peter K]

Thank you Henrik. That was useful. I"ll keep that in my bag of tricks.

-peter

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[Peter K]

Martin, that was definitely the answer.

Now do you have any idea how to export that variable for the user that runs the puppet service...on a mac?

thx,

-peter

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[Martin Alfke]

Hi Peter,

maybe the following is possible:

Identify the home directory and the shell of the user:
grep <user> /etc/passwd

if the user has a bash, add a .bashrc
add export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 to the file.

hth,
Martin

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