Hiera No implicit conversion of string into hash

[Dan Gibbons]

Hi,

I've got a fresh new puppet installation running but I can't seem to get hiera working with the following setup:

OS: RHEL 6.5

Puppet Master: 3.7.1

Ruby: 2.0.0-p576

Hiera: 1.3.4

HIERA.YAML

Hiera.yaml

---

:hierarchy:

- "%{environment}"

- "common"

:backends:

- yaml

:yaml:

  :datadir: /etc/puppet/hieradan

/ETC/PUPPET/HIERADAN/LOCAL.YAML

---

linux-tempdirectory: '/tmp/'

windows-tempdirectory: 'C:\Temp'

Running the following command fails:

# hiera 'windows-tempdirectory' --config /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml --debug

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p576/gems/hiera-1.3.4/lib/hiera/config.rb:29:in `merge!': no implicit conversion of String into Hash (TypeError)

        from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p576/gems/hiera-1.3.4/lib/hiera/config.rb:29:in `load'

        from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p576/gems/hiera-1.3.4/lib/hiera.rb:45:in `initialize'

        from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p576/gems/hiera-1.3.4/bin/hiera:211:in `new'

        from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p576/gems/hiera-1.3.4/bin/hiera:211:in `<top (required)>'

        from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p576/bin/hiera:23:in `load'

        from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p576/bin/hiera:23:in `<main>'

        from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p576/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `eval'

        from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p576/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `<main>'

I have "local" set in my agent environment setting.

Any ideas what this could be as I'm really stuck with this at the moment?

Thanks

Dan

[Felix Frank]

On 10/06/2014 03:50 PM, Dan Gibbons wrote:
> HIERA.YAML
>
> Hiera.yaml
> ---
> :hierarchy:
> - "%{environment}"
> - "common"
> :backends:
> - yaml
> :yaml:
> :datadir: /etc/puppet/hieradan

Is the second "Hiera.yaml" part of your YAML?

> # hiera 'windows-tempdirectory' --config /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml --debug
> /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p576/gems/hiera-1.3.4/lib/hiera/config.rb:29:in
> `merge!': no implicit conversion of String into Hash (TypeError)

...because that would explain why Hiera is complaining about the String
value where a Hash is expected.