Problems with installing packages using mco and ubuntu 12.04

[Alexander Kulbiy]

Hi all,

I'm now looking forward to implement mcollective on some servers I manage and I found a strange issue with mco command-line tool.

I need to install/remove packages using mcollective. When I'm trying to install a package I don't get any error response from mco however package is not installed:

root@puppetmaster:/home/ubuntu# mco rpc --with-fact company_role=demo-test3 --json package install package=nano-tiny

[

  {

    "data": {

      "output": "",

      "properties": {

        "status": "missing",

        "ensure": "purged",

        "error": "ok",

        "name": "nano-tiny"

      }

    },

    "statuscode": 0,

    "statusmsg": "OK",

    "sender": "ip-10-43-145-240",

    "agent": "package",

    "action": "install"

  }

]

The output on demo-test3 node:

 

ubuntu@demo-test3:~$ dpkg -l | grep nano-tiny

ubuntu@demo-test3:~$ 

I'm using the following versions of mcollective:

root@puppetmaster:/home/ubuntu# dpkg -l | grep mcoll

ii  mcollective                              2.2.4-1                      build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems

ii  mcollective-client                       2.2.4-1                      build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems

ii  mcollective-common                       2.2.4-1                      build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems

ii  mcollective-facter-facts                 1.0.0-1                      Puppetlabs Facter facts plugin

ii  mcollective-package-client               4.2.0-1                      Install and uninstall software packages

ii  mcollective-package-common               4.2.0-1                      Install and uninstall software packages

ii  mcollective-puppet-agent                 1.6.0-1                      Run Puppet agent, get its status, and enable/disable it

ii  mcollective-puppet-client                1.6.0-1                      Run Puppet agent, get its status, and enable/disable it

ii  mcollective-puppet-common                1.6.0-1                      Run Puppet agent, get its status, and enable/disable it

ubuntu@demo-test3:~$ dpkg -l | grep mcoll
ii  mcollective                      2.2.4-1                           build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems
rc  mcollective-client               1.2.1+dfsg-2ubuntu1.1             Build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems
ii  mcollective-common               2.2.4-1                           build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems
ii  mcollective-facter-facts         1.0.0-1                           Puppetlabs Facter facts plugin
ii  mcollective-puppet-agent         1.6.0-1                           Run Puppet agent, get its status, and enable/disable it
ii  mcollective-puppet-common        1.6.0-1                           Run Puppet agent, get its status, and enable/disable it 

In the same time when I'm trying to uninstall already present package it works like a charm.

Can anyone advice how to deal with installation of packages?

Thanks in advance,

Alex