Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server Puppet Enterprise

[Sam Oehlert]

We are trying to set up PE 3.1 on RHEL 6 boxes. We were able to install the clients fine and they were listed as working in the console. After a while, we started to see a bunch of errors that look like this: 

Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Puppet::Parser::Compiler failed with error NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass on node (hostname here)

They don't seem to really give any useful information. Other googling usually shows some error in a manifest at the end of the line that points to a specific line number in a .pp file, but we don't get that help even. Any ideas? If more information is needed, let me know and I'll find it. 

[Josh Cooper]

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Hi Sam,

You should ask this question on the pe-users mailing list.

With that said, the error is occurring on the master when compiling the catalog for the node. I would start by looking at syslog on the master, and if that doesn't help, try adding the --debug option to the PE master's config.ru, and restarting pe-httpd.

Josh

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Josh Cooper

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[Xav Paice]

That one seems to happen every time I stuff up the permissions on the puppet and SSL directories, probably worth a check.

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[Sam Oehlert]

Josh,

Sorry, I thought posting a new topic on the puppet-users google group would have the same effect.

When I look in syslog (even after turning on debugging) all I see is:

Puppet::Parser::Compiler failed with error NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass on node (hostname here)

Xav,

Can you please give me an example of what the permissions look like? They do seem to look a little funky, but I'm not sure what they should be.

[Josh Cooper]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Sam Oehlert <somid...@gmail.com> wrote:

Josh,

Sorry, I thought posting a new topic on the puppet-users google group would have the same effect.

When I look in syslog (even after turning on debugging) all I see is:

Puppet::Parser::Compiler failed with error NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass on node (hostname here)

Sorry, you'll also need to specify --trace to get a stacktrace.

 

Xav,

Can you please give me an example of what the permissions look like? They do seem to look a little funky, but I'm not sure what they should be.

On Monday, November 11, 2013 4:03:34 PM UTC-6, Sam Oehlert wrote:

We are trying to set up PE 3.1 on RHEL 6 boxes. We were able to install the clients fine and they were listed as working in the console. After a while, we started to see a bunch of errors that look like this: 

Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Puppet::Parser::Compiler failed with error NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass on node (hostname here)

They don't seem to really give any useful information. Other googling usually shows some error in a manifest at the end of the line that points to a specific line number in a .pp file, but we don't get that help even. Any ideas? If more information is needed, let me know and I'll find it. 

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