Error 400 on SERVER: No such file or directory - getcwd

[Rachel Andrew]

Hi

fully expecting to have done something silly here but am struggling to debug why I am getting the error:

Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: No such file or directory - getcwd at /etc/puppet/manifests/nodes.pp:2 on node my.domain.net

the line in question is getting a custom module which has not changed recently.

I was installing http://www.practicalclouds.com/content/guide/pclouds-vcsdeploy-deploy-stuff and having some permissions issues, so I think this may well be to do with permissions. However I am at a loss as to what as everything looks to be ok.

Puppet Master and two client nodes on Debian Wheezy, the clients both return this error. Puppet version 3.2.1 on all 3.

Any suggestions as to where to start debugging this?

Rachel

[Jon Jaroker]

I debugged this same 400 error with 'getcwd' in my 2.7.18 version of puppet.  I did not find useful information through web searches, so posted my debugging steps here: http://jaroker.com/?p=2036

In my case, the puppet master had been operating normally for over a year. I had recently updated my Eclipse IDE and created new manifests. The IDE used non UTF-8 encoding on these new files. Subsequent puppet runs on various nodes produced this 400-getcwd error:  "puppet:  Could not retrieve catalog from remote server Error 400 on SERVER “Could not parse for environment...” getcwd"

In my case, the solution was to identify DOS-encoded files on the master and convert them to unix.

Jon