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Hi,

I have a problem with facter 1.5.2 under Red Hat 4 ES/AS (Xen guests). When I trigger a configuration run via puppetrun, puppetd hangs after reading /proc/xen/capabilities. It does not happen on RHEL5 or real hardware.

Problem is similar to this bug report: http://fossplanet.com/sysutils.puppet.devel/thread-1849839-hangs/

Solution is similar, too: diff -Nur facter-1.5.2.orig/lib/facter/virtual.rb facter-1.5.2/lib/facter/virtual.rb —– facter-1.5.2.orig/lib/facter/virtual.rb 2008-09-09 05:00:03.000000000 +0200 +++ facter-1.5.2/lib/facter/virtual.rb 2009-03-03 12:55:43.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ Facter.add(“virtual”) do + require ‘thread’ confine :kernel => %w{Linux FreeBSD OpenBSD}

ENV[“PATH”]=“/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin” @@ -11,12 +12,14 @@

   result = "openvz"
 end

• if FileTest.exists?(“/proc/xen/capabilities”) && FileTest.readable?(“/proc/xen/capabilities”)
• txt = File.read(“/proc/xen/capabilities”)
• if txt =~ /control_d/i

•  result = "xen0"
  

• else

•  result = "xenu" 
  

• Thread::exclusive do
• if FileTest.exists?(“/proc/xen/capabilities”) && FileTest.readable?(“/proc/xen/capabilities”)

•  txt = File.read("/proc/xen/capabilities")
  

•  if txt =~ /control_d/i
  

•    result = "xen0"
  

•  else
  

•    result = "xenu" 
  

•  end
  

  end end

Have fun Waldemar