Puppet

On one of our systems a recipe didn’t work which did work on another host with the exact same configuration. Turns out that the Dir.glob() from the util/autoload.rb method loadall returned files in a different order. In the failure case it tried to load the “directoryservice” group provider before all the others. On other servers that provider cam in the end.

The fix is:

--- autoload.rb.old    2009-01-15 17:59:32.000000000 +0100
+++ autoload.rb 2009-01-15 17:59:48.000000000 +0100
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
                 begin
                     Kernel.require file
                     loaded(name, file)
-                rescue => detail
+                rescue LoadError => detail
                     if Puppet[:trace]
                         puts detail.backtrace
                     end

The same happened in bug #312 but I don’t know enough about Ruby to know why this happens.