Puppet

This is my third attempt to update this ticket in the past two days (redmine is acting—odd). Sorry if I sound terse, but I’m getting tired of typing this.

• I’m setting the ticket to Normal from Urgent (or at least trying to) since the change in question is ~a year old, there’s only this one report of the problem, and it’s not clear how the fix for #1812 could cause this in isolation.

• I’m assigning it back to Robert as Needs more information as there are several plausible explanations for the situation, and finding the right one depends on knowing more:

** Could some other process is trying to access the yaml files on the server and locking them? 0.24.8 would have ignored this (while possibly silently corrupting the files)

** I’m assuming that what you are saying is that only the first puppetd run works, but it is possible that you mean multiple puppetd runs work until the puppetmaster is restarted. Is this the case?

** Does this happen on all nodes, or only some? If only some, is it always the same ones, and are they in anyway special?

** I’m assuming it’s the puppetmasterd that’s on OpenBSD, is that correct? Do you have the ability to try it with an alternate puppetmasterd running on another OS (assuming it’s very repeatable)? Do you have a reason for believing that it’s related to OpenBSD?

— Markus