“/sbin/service puppet start” hangs at:

Feb 26 21:31:52 HOSTNAME puppetd[24685]: Reopening log files Feb 26 21:31:52 HOSTNAME puppetd[24685]: Starting Puppet client version 0.24.7 Feb 26 21:31:52 HOSTNAME puppet: puppetd startup succeeded

facter version 1.5.4 (from .tgz)

It looks to be coming from inside uptime.rb, and specificaly from reading /proc/uptime. This machine is RedHat ES4 Update 6. Strace info is below:

strace -e ‘!nanosleep,close,sigprocmask’ -Ff service puppet start

[pid 3509] open(“/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/uptime.rb”, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 6 [pid 3509] fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=548, …}) = 0 [pid 3509] mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb708c000 [pid 3509] read(6, “require \‘facter/util/uptime\’\n\nFa”…, 4096) = 548 [pid 3509] read(6, “”, 4096) = 0 [pid 3509] munmap(0xb708c000, 4096) = 0 [pid 3509] stat64(“/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/uptime.rb”, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1025, …}) = 0 [pid 3509] open(“/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/uptime.rb”, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 6 [pid 3509] stat64(“/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/uptime.rb”, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1025, …}) = 0 [pid 3509] open(“/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/uptime.rb”, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 6 [pid 3509] open(“/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/uptime.rb”, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 6 [pid 3509] open(“/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/uptime.rb”, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 6 [pid 3509] open(“/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/uptime.rb”, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 6 [pid 3509] fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1025, …}) = 0 [pid 3509] mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb708c000 [pid 3509] read(6, “# A module to gather uptime fact”…, 4096) = 1025 [pid 3509] read(6, “”, 4096) = 0 [pid 3509] munmap(0xb708c000, 4096) = 0 [pid 3509] stat64(“/proc/uptime”, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, …}) = 0 [pid 3509] open(“/proc/uptime”, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 6 [pid 3509] select(7, [6], [], [], {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 3509] gettimeofday({1235685917, 888942}, NULL) = 0 [pid 3509] gettimeofday({1235685917, 889039}, NULL) = 0 [pid 3509] select(7, [3 6], [], [], NULL) = 1 (in [3]) [pid 3509] read(3, “.”, 256) = 1 [pid 3509] gettimeofday({1235685917, 889587}, NULL) = 0 [pid 3509] gettimeofday({1235685917, 889676}, NULL) = 0 [pid 3509] gettimeofday({1235685917, 889837}, NULL) = 0 [pid 3509] gettimeofday({1235685917, 890025}, NULL) = 0 [pid 3509] gettimeofday({1235685917, 890068}, NULL) = 0 [pid 3509] select(7, [3 6], [], [], {11, 252007}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 3509] gettimeofday({1235685929, 143389}, NULL) = 0 [pid 3509] select(7, [3 6], [], [], {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 3509] select(7, [6], [], [], {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)

the process then loops around the selects/gettimeofday.

Tried setting the File.open() to be NONBLOCK, but no luck. “service puppet once” runs just fine, as does “facter” with no args.