uninitialized constant Facter::IPAddress (NameError)

[Michael Conigliaro]

I just started getting this error on some machines after a yum update
from centos 5.2 to centos 5.3. Does anyone know what it means? Since
I'm not a ruby person, I'm not sure how to debug this, but it looks to
me like facter is having trouble parsing information about my
interfaces.

# facter
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/ipmess.rb:19: uninitialized constant
Facter::IPAddress (NameError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:72:in `load'
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:72:in `load_file'
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:38:in `load_all'
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:33:in `each'
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:33:in `load_all'
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:30:in `each'
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:30:in `load_all'
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/collection.rb:90:in
`load_all'
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter.rb:91:in `to_hash'
from /usr/bin/facter:125

My facter version is 1.5.4.

--
Michael Conigliaro
Computer Analyst
Fuss & O'Neill Technologies
www.fandotech.com

[Michael Conigliaro]

I just confirmed this problem on 1.5.5rc1 as well.

--
Michael Conigliaro
Computer Analyst
Fuss & O'Neill Technologies
www.fandotech.com

[Michael Conigliaro]

For anyone else who has this problem, here's the fix:

rm /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/ipmess.rb

According to someone in #puppet, this file should have been deleted
during the upgrade...

[James Turnbull]

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Michael Conigliaro wrote:
> For anyone else who has this problem, here's the fix:
>
> rm /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/ipmess.rb
>
> According to someone in #puppet, this file should have been deleted
> during the upgrade...

Depends on HOW you upgrade. If you install from source (install.rb)
then no old files are removed.

Regards

James Turnbull

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[Avi Miller]

On 25/04/2009, at 12:31 PM, James Turnbull wrote:

> Depends on HOW you upgrade. If you install from source (install.rb)
> then no old files are removed.

I think this is a problem in the RPM -- I had the same error when I
upgraded Facter via RPM from 1.5.2 to 1.5.4. Though, restarting Puppet
makes it go away. So now I notify the Puppet service from the Facter
package, which neatly solves the problem[1].

cYa,
Avi

[1] At least, it does for me. YMMV.