External facts not working

[Predrag Stojanovic]

Hello Graham,

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why your external facts (suddenly) stopped working here.  External facts are suddenly missing from Facter runs.  I have Mac Facts 0.0.4 and Facter 2.4.6  When trying to force Facter to process the folder I get this:

:facts.d pstojanovic$ facter -p --external-dir=/usr/local/sal/facter/ --debug

Could not load Puppet: cannot load such file -- puppet

/usr/local/sal/facter/mac_admin_users.rb: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `:mac_admin_users'

/usr/local/sal/facter/mac_admin_users.rb: line 3: `Facter.add(:mac_admin_users) do'

Fact file /usr/local/sal/facter/mac_admin_users.rb was parsed but returned an empty data set

/usr/local/sal/facter/mac_battery_charge_percent.rb: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `:mac_battery_charge_percent'

/usr/local/sal/facter/mac_battery_charge_percent.rb: line 2: `Facter.add(:mac_battery_charge_percent) do'

Fact file /usr/local/sal/facter/mac_battery_charge_percent.rb was parsed but returned an empty data set

/usr/local/sal/facter/mac_battery_charging.rb: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `:mac_battery_charging'

/usr/local/sal/facter/mac_battery_charging.rb: line 2: `Facter.add(:mac_battery_charging) do'

Fact file /usr/local/sal/facter/mac_battery_charging.rb was parsed but returned an empty data set

/usr/local/sal/facter/mac_battery_cycles.rb: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `:mac_battery_cycles'

/usr/local/sal/facter/mac_battery_cycles.rb: line 2: `Facter.add(:mac_battery_cycles) do'

Fact file /usr/local/sal/facter/mac_battery_cycles.rb was parsed but returned an empty data set

/usr/local/sal/facter/mac_battery_health.rb: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `:mac_battery_health'

/usr/local/sal/facter/mac_battery_health.rb: line 2: `Facter.add(:mac_battery_health) do'

Fact file /usr/local/sal/facter/mac_battery_health.rb was parsed but returned an empty data set

/usr/local/sal/facter/mac_current_user.rb: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `:mac_current_user'

/usr/local/sal/facter/mac_current_user.rb: line 2: `Facter.add(:mac_current_user) do'

Fact file /usr/local/sal/facter/mac_current_user.rb was parsed but returned an empty data set

Fact file /usr/local/sal/facter/mac_encryption_enabled.rb was parsed but returned an empty data set

/usr/local/sal/facter/mac_flash_version.rb: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `:mac_flash_version'

/usr/local/sal/facter/mac_flash_version.rb: line 2: `Facter.add(:mac_flash_version) do'

Fact file /usr/local/sal/facter/mac_flash_version.rb was parsed but returned an empty data set

/usr/local/sal/facter/mac_has_wireless.rb: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `:mac_has_wireless'

/usr/local/sal/facter/mac_has_wireless.rb: line 3: `Facter.add(:mac_has_wireless) do'

Fact file /usr/local/sal/facter/mac_has_wireless.rb was parsed but returned an empty data set

/usr/local/sal/facter/mac_java_vendor.rb: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `:mac_java_vendor'

Thanks in advance,

Predrag

[Graham Gilbert]

How did you install Facter?

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[Predrag Stojanovic]

Standalone Facter package, using Munki and Autopkg

Since I noticed the problem, I also tried installing both Facter and Puppet from https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/mac/

[Graham Gilbert]

The standalone package is deprecated by puppet labs. Does this still happen with the latest all in one puppet agent package?

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[Predrag Stojanovic]

I have puppet-agent 1.10.4 installed.  Have not tried puppet5

fwiw, when invoking facter, it seems to be running 2.4.6

facts.d pstojanovic$ which facter

/usr/bin/facter

facts.d pstojanovic$ facter -v

2.4.6

[Graham Gilbert]

I honestly haven’t run it in this manner for years. Does Facter work when supplying an external directory for your facts and running manually?

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[Predrag Stojanovic]

facts in /etc/facter/facts.d/ only get processed  with --external-dir specified

they used to return data on every run, so this could be a bug (same behavior persists with puppet5)

[Graham Gilbert]

A big with Facter or Sal...?

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[Graham Gilbert]

Or bug even

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[Predrag Stojanovic]

bug with Facter -- testing on a clean OS install next

question - how does Facter know to process the /usr/local/sal/facter directory?

[Graham Gilbert]

It sets an environment variable https://github.com/salopensource/sal-scripts/blob/master/postflight.d/sal-postflight#L320

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[Predrag Stojanovic]

All is well - turns out I had butchered the postflight, disabling the env variable.  Thanks for the learning opportunity!

[Graham Gilbert]

Excellent!

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