Facter doesnt resolve ipaddress or ipaddress_eth0

[Joao Morais]

Hello list. I am trying to read the IP address of the eth0 interface from a CentOS 6.5 VM (XenServer).

Running the manifest gives empty values to all of the following vars: $ipaddress, $ipaddress_eth0, and its $::<name> version. $interfaces has "eth0,lo".

Running facter from the VM I get:

# facter -v
2.0.1

# facter | grep virtual
is_virtual => true
virtual => xenu

# facter | grep eth
interfaces => eth0,lo
mtu_eth0 => 1500

# facter ipaddress_eth0

# facter ipaddress

ifconfig output:

# ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  Endereço de HW 7E:81:CD:66:77:DF 
          inet end.: 10.200.118.83  Bcast:10.200.119.255  Masc:255.255.254.0
          UP BROADCASTRUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Métrica:1
          ...etc...

Any tip? Thanks!

[Joao Morais]

List, just to document the solution. My CentOS was localized and facter couldn't parse de output properly. Changing the locale to en_US solves this issue.

Joao Morais

[Robin Bowes]

Hmm, I find that hard to believe, ie. that's a pretty massive and fundamental bug in facter if that is indeed the case.

Can you reproduce on other boxes?

R.

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[Joao Morais]

Em 28/07/14 16:34, Robin Bowes escreveu:

> Hmm, I find that hard to believe, ie. that's a pretty massive and
> fundamental bug in facter if that is indeed the case.

Perhaps I have a not-so-common use case? I'm manually running (local
rundeck) puppet agent in my tests via ssh. Ssh was sending my local
LANG* stuff through the wire and messing ifconfig output.

> Can you reproduce on other boxes?

Yes.

Facter does some regex on ifconfig output. The regex just didn't match
and facter silently ignored ifconfig related facts. FYI the VM was using
pt_BR.UTF8 locale.

Joao Morais

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