Error in puppet manifest which I cannot track down....

[Deven Phillips]

Hello all,

I'm hoping that someone on this list might be able to help me track
down an error in my manifests. I have 3 environments. In my dev
environment, I have the following directories configured:

/etc/puppet/dev/modules
manifests
templates

For the manifests folder, I have puppet configured to reference a
"site.pp" file which then includes other files using:

import "nodes/*.pp"
import "classes/*.pp"

On one of my nodes which is definitely configured to use the dev
environment (I have seen the requests in the Passenger logs) I keep
getting the following error:

# puppet agent --test
info: Retrieving plugin
err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER:
syntax error on line 62, col 0: `0 #<File:0xb5c3264c>'
warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
err: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run

Running with the "--debug" option does not give any further details
about the error.

On the puppetmaster, I have checked the puppet logs and I see:

Oct 26 15:59:46 DELETED puppet-master[25442]: Compiled catalog for
DELETED in environment dev in 0.02 seconds
Oct 26 15:59:46 DELETED puppet-master[25442]: syntax error on line 62,
col 0: `0 #<File:0xb5c3264c>'
Oct 26 15:59:46 DELETED puppet-master[25442]: (//DELETED/Puppet) Could
not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: syntax
error on line 62, col 0: `0 #<File:0xb5c3264c>'
Oct 26 15:59:46 DELETED puppet-master[25442]: (//DELETED/Puppet) Not
using cache on failed catalog
Oct 26 15:59:46 DELETED puppet-master[25442]: (//DELETED/Puppet) Could
not retrieve catalog; skipping run

I have checked, double-checked, and triple checked my manifests. I have
removed all of the contents of the "node" definition for this host, and
I still get this error... Strangely, I do not get this error on ANY
other hosts!!!

The node in question is "Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS"
The puppet version is : 2.6.7
The facter version is : 1.5.8
The puppetmaster is running puppet version 2.7.3 and is running via
Passenger

I have even gone one step further... I removed all of my classes and all
other nodes from the manifests such that I have 3 files:

/etc/puppet/dev/manifests/site.pp which imports the classes/** and the
nodes/**
/etc/puppet/dev/manifests/nodes/problemnode.pp which has an empty "node"
block
/etc/puppet/dev/manifests/classes/test.pp which is blank

And I STILL get the same error!?!?!? WTF?!?! ***pulls hair out***

Please help!!!

Deven

[Deven Phillips]

Well, I found the cause but I still don't know the reason... On a
whim, I removed the "storedconfigs" settings from my puppetmaster's
configuration. Everything started working. BIZARRE!!!

Deven