Constant "end of file reached"

[Steve Perry]

Wondering if anyone has seen this issue before:

[root@xxpuppet2 puppet]# puppet agent -t

Warning: Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue:

Warning: end of file reached

Info: Retrieving pluginfacts

Info: Retrieving plugin

Error: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]: Failed to generate additional resources using 'eval_generate': end of file reached

Info: Loading facts

Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: end of file reached

Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog

Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run

[root@xxpuppet2 puppet]#

I am seeing this happen on every node that runs against this master.  This seems to have started randomly...

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

[Kylo Ginsberg]

Hi Steve,

What version of puppet are you running?

If you recently upgraded to 3.7.x, you could be seeing https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-3238. The tldr there is that the new http_keepalive_timeout setting should be less than the puppet master's keep alive timeout (e.g. KeepAliveTimeout on apache).

Thanks!

Kylo

[Steve Perry]

Thanks for the reply Kylo - 

We were running puppet 3.7.1-1.  After seeing this, I checked the keep alive settings in httpd.conf and KeepAlive was off.  After enabling KeepAlive and setting it to 15 seconds, I was still seeing the same issue.

I took a snapshot of the virtual machine and then downgraded the puppet master/agent to 3.6.2-1 (changed KeepAlive back to off) and I'm still seeing the error:

Warning: Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue:

Warning: end of file reached

Info: Retrieving pluginfacts

Info: Retrieving plugin

Info: Loading external facts from /etc/puppet/modules/puppet/facts.d

Info: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/concat/lib/facter/concat_basedir.rb

Info: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/facter/facter_dot_d.rb

Info: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/facter/puppet_vardir.rb

Info: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/facter/root_home.rb

Info: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/facter/pe_version.rb

Info: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/apt/lib/facter/apt_package_updates.rb

Info: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/apt/lib/facter/apt_updates.rb

Info: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/apt/lib/facter/apt_security_updates.rb

Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/facter_dot_d.rb

Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/puppet_vardir.rb

Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/root_home.rb

Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/concat_basedir.rb

Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/apt_package_updates.rb

Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/apt_updates.rb

Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/pe_version.rb

Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/apt_security_updates.rb

Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: end of file reached

Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog

Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run