Jira (FACT-2450) no facts are shown on Ubuntu when running as non-root user

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Ciprian Badescu (Jira)

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FACT-2450

no facts are shown on Ubuntu when running as non-root user

Issue Type:	Bug
Assignee:	Unassigned
Created:	2020/03/10 5:38 AM
Priority:	Normal
Reporter:	Ciprian Badescu

When running facter as non-root user error occurs and no fact is visible:

cbadescu@ciprian:~/puppetlabs/facter-ng$ bundle exec ./bin/facter

#<Thread:0x000055c19198dfc0@/home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/framework/core/fact/internal/internal_fact_manager.rb:23 run> terminated with exception (report_on_exception is true):

Traceback (most recent call last):

	10: from /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/framework/core/fact/internal/internal_fact_manager.rb:25:in `block (2 levels) in start_threads'

	 9: from /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/framework/core/fact/internal/core_fact.rb:12:in `create'

	 8: from /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/facts/debian/dmi/board/serial_number.rb:11:in `call_the_resolver'

	 7: from /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/resolvers/base_resolver.rb:19:in `resolve'

	 6: from /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/resolvers/base_resolver.rb:19:in `synchronize'

	 5: from /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/resolvers/base_resolver.rb:21:in `block in resolve'

	 4: from /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/resolvers/dmi_resolver.rb:28:in `post_resolve'

	 3: from /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/resolvers/dmi_resolver.rb:28:in `fetch'

	 2: from /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/resolvers/dmi_resolver.rb:28:in `block in post_resolve'

	 1: from /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/resolvers/dmi_resolver.rb:39:in `read_facts'

/home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/resolvers/dmi_resolver.rb:39:in `read': Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - /sys/class/dmi/id/board_serial (Errno::EACCES)

bundler: failed to load command: ./bin/facter (./bin/facter)

Errno::EACCES: Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - /sys/class/dmi/id/board_serial

  /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/resolvers/dmi_resolver.rb:39:in `read'

  /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/resolvers/dmi_resolver.rb:39:in `read_facts'

  /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/resolvers/dmi_resolver.rb:28:in `block in post_resolve'

  /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/resolvers/dmi_resolver.rb:28:in `fetch'

  /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/resolvers/dmi_resolver.rb:28:in `post_resolve'

  /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/resolvers/base_resolver.rb:21:in `block in resolve'

  /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/resolvers/base_resolver.rb:19:in `synchronize'

  /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/resolvers/base_resolver.rb:19:in `resolve'

  /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/facts/debian/dmi/board/serial_number.rb:11:in `call_the_resolver'

  /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/framework/core/fact/internal/core_fact.rb:12:in `create'

  /home/cbadescu/puppetlabs/facter-ng/lib/framework/core/fact/internal/internal_fact_manager.rb:25:in `block (2 levels) in start_threads'

cbadescu@ciprian:~/puppetlabs/facter-ng$ No LSB modules are available.

Exception ignored in: <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='UTF-8'>

BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

When asking for specific fact not requesting DMI/etc. it works ok:

cbadescu@ciprian:~/puppetlabs/facter-ng$ bundle exec ./bin/facter os

No LSB modules are available.

  architecture => "amd64",

  distro => {

    codename => "disco",

    description => "Ubuntu 19.04",

    id => "Ubuntu",

    release => {

      full => "19.04",

      major => "19",

      minor => "04"

},

  family => "Debian",

  hardware => "x86_64",

  name => "Ubuntu",

  release => {

    full => "19.04",

    major => "19",

    minor => "04"

},

  selinux => {

    enabled => false

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Oana Tanasoiu (Jira)

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Mar 10, 2020, 10:02:03 AM3/10/20

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Oana Tanasoiu updated an issue

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FACT-2450

no facts are shown on Ubuntu when running as non-root user

Change By:	Oana Tanasoiu
Sub-team:	ghost
Team:	Night's Watch

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FACT-2450

no facts are shown on Ubuntu when running as non-root user

Change By:	Oana Tanasoiu
Assignee:	Oana Tanasoiu