Puppet

Few distributions enable pluginsync by default – a good thing. Puppet though will log a lot of errors as below in the case that no plugins are present in the manifests which is very confusing as it seems critical.

I’d suggest the master should create an empty plugin directory structure if no plugins are found so that the copy out to the client still work, or the log messages can just be surpressed, or something else that achieves a less confusing result.

Dec 16 15:29:24 puffin puppetd[1266]: Reopening log files
Dec 16 15:29:24 puffin puppetd[1266]: Starting Puppet client version 0.25.1
Dec 16 15:29:25 puffin puppetd[1266]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]) Failed to retrieve current state of resource: Could not retrieve information from source(s) puppet://puppet/plugins
Dec 16 15:29:25 puffin puppetd[1266]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/facter]) Dependency file[/var/lib/puppet/lib] has 1 failures
Dec 16 15:29:25 puffin puppetd[1266]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/facter]) Skipping because of failed dependencies
Dec 16 15:29:25 puffin puppetd[1266]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/puppet]) Dependency file[/var/lib/puppet/lib] has 1 failures
Dec 16 15:29:25 puffin puppetd[1266]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/puppet]) Skipping because of failed dependencies
Dec 16 15:29:25 puffin puppetd[1266]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/puppet/parser]) Dependency file[/var/lib/puppet/lib] has 1 failures
Dec 16 15:29:25 puffin puppetd[1266]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/puppet/parser]) Skipping because of failed dependencies
Dec 16 15:29:25 puffin puppetd[1266]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/puppet/parser/functions]) Dependency file[/var/lib/puppet/lib] has 1 failures
Dec 16 15:29:25 puffin puppetd[1266]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/puppet/parser/functions]) Skipping because of failed dependencies
Dec 16 15:29:25 puffin puppetd[1266]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/puppet/provider]) Dependency file[/var/lib/puppet/lib] has 1 failures
Dec 16 15:29:25 puffin puppetd[1266]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/puppet/provider]) Skipping because of failed dependencies
Dec 16 15:29:25 puffin puppetd[1266]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/puppet/type]) Dependency file[/var/lib/puppet/lib] has 1 failures
Dec 16 15:29:25 puffin puppetd[1266]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/puppet/type]) Skipping because of failed dependencies