Service stuck after updating puppet on Windows Server 2003

[cko]

Hi,

I'm using puppet to manage the puppet agent (package, config, service) in my Windows Server 2003 boxes.

Whenever I update the package, the puppet agent service gets stuck  (STOP PENDING).

The report returns:

Fri May 09 12:13:51 +0200 2014 /Stage[main]/puppet_agent::Windows::Service/Service[puppet] (err): Failed to call refresh: Cannot start puppet, error was: Execution of 'C:/WINDOWS/system32/net.exe start puppet' returned 2: The requested service has already been started.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2182.

Fri May 09 12:13:51 +0200 2014 /Stage[main]/puppet_agent::Windows::Service/Service[puppet] (err): Cannot start puppet, error was: Execution of 'C:/WINDOWS/system32/net.exe start puppet' returned 2: The requested service has already been started.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2182.

I use the same manifest for Windows Server 2008 nodes without runnning into this problem.

My manifest looks like this:

package { 'Puppet':

   ensure          => "3.5.1",

   source          => "\\\\share\\puppet_agent\\windows\\puppet-3.5.1.msi",

   provider        => windows,

   install_options => { 'INSTALLDIR' => 'C:\puppet' } 

}

file { 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\PuppetLabs\puppet\etc\puppet.conf':

   content => template("base_puppet_agent/windows/puppet_windows.erb"),                                           

   notify  => Service['puppet'],

   require => Package ['Puppet'],

}

service { 'puppet':

   ensure   => running,

   enable   => true,

   require  => Package['Puppet'],

}

[Rob Reynolds]

This error is somewhat of a misnomer: "The requested service has already been started."

When you say it gets stuck, what do you mean exactly?

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[cko]

After the puppet run the agent service is basically stopped.

Although when i run "sc queryex puppet" the output is "STOP_PENDING" (not stopped but not running either).

So i have to run "taskkill /f /pid 1234" and then start the service again.

[cko]

Any idea?

[Rob Reynolds]

Using puppet to manage puppet upgrades to the agent has been an interesting dilemma that sometimes has issues. OpenTable came out with this module: https://forge.puppetlabs.com/opentable/puppetversion to help handle upgrades. On Windows they set a scheduled task to manage the upgrade just after the run is complete.

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