Puppet corrupted files on client node

[Kenneth Holter]

Hi.

 

 

Puppet corrupted some files on one of our servers, resulting in (services on) the server chrashing.

The files that got corrupted are files distributed by the puppetmaster. One such file is the file system-auth:

 

[root@host ~]# cat /etc/pam.d/system-auth
420     file    101     102     {md5}4cf3320c2daa0caef2e1e5734c5fc6e3

 

All the corrupted files had similar content.

 

I've found an entry in /var/log/puppet/puppet.log that seems to be related to this problem:

Tue Mar 25 10:02:53 +0100 2008 //Node[host]/was_log_shares_prod/Waslog::Shares[waslogs_Prod]/Samba::Server[was_log_shares]/File[/etc/pam.d/system-auth]/source (err): Could not describe /files/pam_system-auth-samba: HTTP-Error: 500 Internal Server Error

Fortunately, this server was not a production server, and we're hoping the problem will be resolved before it hits a production server.

 

We're running version 0.24.1 of puppet.

 

Any help would be appreciated. Let me know of further details that may be of interest.

 

Regards,

 

Kenneth Holter

[Peter Meier]

Hi

> Any help would be appreciated. Let me know of further details that may be of
> interest.

you have been hit by #1010 [1]. and you should upgrade to the 0.24.4
(when it's out) or the latest git source or restart puppetmaster by cron
once in a while.

greets pete

[1] http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/ticket/1010

[Kenneth Holter]

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

For now I think we'll settle with restarting the puppetmaster deamon once in a while. It is likely that this will be a temporary fix to the problem? Will restarting the puppetmaster once pr day suffice?

[Jesse Nelson]

should prob move to 24.4 as soon as its out since that bug has been
fixed. 24.4 should be out soon.

On Mar 25, 6:55 am, "Kenneth Holter" <kenneho....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply.
>
> For now I think we'll settle with restarting the puppetmaster deamon once in
> a while. It is likely that this will be a temporary fix to the problem? Will
> restarting the puppetmaster once pr day suffice?
>

[Adam Jacob]

This won't help you, actually. The issue appears to be client side,
and not related to the puppetmaster at all. If you want to be sure
you don't get hit by 1010 again, you need to try the latest 0.24.4
release candidate.

Adam

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[Arjuna Christensen]

Packages of 0.24.4rc3 for Ubuntu 7.04/7.10 are available at http://junglist.gen.nz/puppet

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