"You need rubygems to use Hiera"

[Jonathan Gazeley]

Hi chaps,

This morning I started running into an error. All my nodes started failing with:

Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: You need rubygems to use Hiera at /home/ispms/PUPPETROOT/environments/common/modules/uob_ntp/manifests/init.pp:5 on node dhcp-dev.nomadic-core.bris.ac.uk

The master log shows:

Jan 20 12:08:38 puppet-prod puppet-master[30673]: Puppet.features.rubygems? is deprecated. Require rubygems in your application's entry point if you need it.
Jan 20 12:08:38 puppet-prod puppet-master[30673]:    (at /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/feature.rb:17:in `add')

I also read this recent thread, and none of the recommendations helped:

http://grokbase.com/t/gg/puppet-users/1419xmhyf3/error-testing-puppet-3-x-upgrade-you-need-rubygems-to-use-hiera

This morning a colleague of mine wrote a custom function. It looked sane to me but I removed it in case it was broken, and it didn't help.

I also installed a Forge module, which I later removed, and it didn't help.

I'm running stock puppet-3.4.2 from the PL repo and we are using hiera-1.3.0. Everything worked normally until this morning and I'm not entirely sure where to go from here. Any suggestions of things to look at?

Cheers,
Jonathan

[Jonathan Gazeley]

I fixed my own problem. Seems that when I installed dhoppe/postfix, and it automatically included a dependency dhoppe/puppet which seems to have overwritten some components of puppet. I immediately removed dhoppe/postfix but didn't notice that dhoppe/puppet was still in situ. Removing this and doing "sudo yum reinstall puppet" put back the files and it now works again.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[Moses Mendoza]

Hi Jonathan,

It appears that dhoppe/puppet actually ships an entire copy of hiera
1.0.0 and hiera-puppet inside its lib directory, which is unfortunate
since hiera is now at 1.3.1 and hiera-puppet is part of puppet proper.
I filed an an issue against the github repo, since this isn't an
ideal approach, to say the least.

> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "Puppet Users" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to puppet-users...@googlegroups.com.
> To view this discussion on the web visit
> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/52DD4BCB.30106%40bristol.ac.uk.
>
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.



--
Moses Mendoza
Puppet Labs

Join us at PuppetConf 2014, September 23-24 in San Francisco