Unable to install Puppet Master

[KB_puppet]

I've been trying to install Puppet on my Centos 6.5 system since yesterday but to no avail. At first I installed the puppetmaster-passenger but got a lot of errors during installation. I ended up purging it and today tried a fresh install of just the puppetmaster. There were no errors but I cannot see the puppet.conf or the site.pp file. They are not created during installation. 

ubuntu:/etc$ ll puppet

total 16

drwxr-xr-x   4 root   root   4096 Nov 20 14:49 ./

drwxr-xr-x 106 root   root   4096 Nov 20 14:49 ../

drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root   4096 Nov 20 14:49 manifests/

drwxrwx--x   8 puppet puppet 4096 Nov 20 14:49 ssl/

When I try to start the service, the error I get is

ubuntu:/$ sudo puppet master --verbose --no-daemonize

Notice: Starting Puppet master version 3.7.3

Error: Could not run: Could not create PID file: /var/lib/puppet/run/master.pid

Where am I going wrong? I followed the steps in https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/install_puppet/install_debian_ubuntu.html

Please help 

[Felix Frank]

On 11/20/2014 05:25 PM, KB_puppet wrote:

I've been trying to install Puppet on my Centos 6.5 system since yesterday but to no avail. At first I installed the puppetmaster-passenger but got a lot of errors during installation. I ended up purging it and today tried a fresh install of just the puppetmaster. There were no errors but I cannot see the puppet.conf or the site.pp file. They are not created during installation. 

That's fine. Neither is strictly required to operate the master.

ubuntu:/$ sudo puppet master --verbose --no-daemonize

Notice: Starting Puppet master version 3.7.3

Error: Could not run: Could not create PID file: /var/lib/puppet/run/master.pid

 

Well *that* is strange. Can you add --debug and put the output on Pastebin, Gist or a similar service?

The master should create all required directories on its own.

Thanks,
Felix