Centos 7 facter > 2 issue

[Phil Manuel]

Hi,

If I do a clean install of CentOS 7 with facter and puppet, my puppet fails with

puppet agent -t
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Error: Could not retrieve local facts: undefined method `hostname' for Facter:Module
Error: Failed to apply catalog: Could not retrieve local facts: undefined method `hostname' for Facter:Module


rpm -qa puppet
puppet-3.8.1-1.el7.noarch
rpm -qa facter
facter-2.4.4-1.el7.x86_64

If i run facter hostname it works fine.  If I run puppet facts find <hostname>
Error: Could not call 'find' on 'facts': undefined method `hostname' for Facter:Module
Error: Could not call 'find' on 'facts': undefined method `hostname' for Facter:Module
Error: Try 'puppet help facts find' for usage


If I downgrade facter to 1.7.x then it works fine.


If I  perform the same process on Fedora 22 which has

rpm -qa facter
facter-2.4.1-1.fc22.x86_64
rpm -qa puppet
puppet-4.1.0-1.fc22.noarch


It works fine.

Has anyone got any suggestions ?

Thanks

Phil.

[Peter Huene]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Phil Manuel <fla...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

If I do a clean install of CentOS 7 with facter and puppet, my puppet fails with

puppet agent -t
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Error: Could not retrieve local facts: undefined method `hostname' for Facter:Module
Error: Failed to apply catalog: Could not retrieve local facts: undefined method `hostname' for Facter:Module

It sounds like you're using a module with a custom fact that, on CentOS 7 at least, uses a syntax that was removed in Facter 2.x and later. 

Facter 2.x (and Facter 3.x) do not support querying facts via the "method syntax" on the Facter module itself.

e.g. `Facter.hostname` is not supported in 2.x+; instead, use `Facter.value(:hostname)`.

Specify `--trace` to puppet and see if you can determine the offending module in the trace back.

 

rpm -qa puppet
puppet-3.8.1-1.el7.noarch
rpm -qa facter
facter-2.4.4-1.el7.x86_64

If i run facter hostname it works fine.  If I run puppet facts find <hostname>
Error: Could not call 'find' on 'facts': undefined method `hostname' for Facter:Module
Error: Could not call 'find' on 'facts': undefined method `hostname' for Facter:Module
Error: Try 'puppet help facts find' for usage


If I downgrade facter to 1.7.x then it works fine.


If I  perform the same process on Fedora 22 which has

rpm -qa facter
facter-2.4.1-1.fc22.x86_64
rpm -qa puppet
puppet-4.1.0-1.fc22.noarch


It works fine.

Has anyone got any suggestions ?

Thanks

Phil.

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