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We’re not seeing these issues with 0.25.4 at all.

This smells familiar though. Are you getting the same errors when simply running ‘facter’ ?

Apple made some changes to the XML output of system_profiler that produce errors like this.

I’m getting the following when trying to run facter on my 10.5.6 machine:

$ facter
2010-05-04 13:26:15.567 system_profiler[5019:10b] Exception while calling [SPPlatformReporter updateDictionary:]
*** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (3) beyond bounds (2)
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/facter/macosx.rb:28: undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
     from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:73:in `load'
     from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:73:in `load_file'
     from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:38:in `load_all'
     from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:33:in `each'
     from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:33:in `load_all'
     from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:30:in `each'
     from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:30:in `load_all'
     from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/facter/util/collection.rb:90:in `load_all'
     from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/facter.rb:91:in `to_hash'
     from /usr/bin/facter:138

So – Do you think it would help to update the system to 10.5.8 before trying to run puppet on the machine?

Regards, -Roy

I believe a later 10.5.x release changed the XML output, 10.5.7 perhaps?

You can see the differences with system_profiler -xml SPHardwareDataType

Have you tried different versions of Facter?

Once you’ve worked out which point release changes the output, and how, we can add some error checking to Facter to support both differences in formats.

I believe so, yes.

Updating to 10.5.8 seemed to do the trick for me for both running puppet & for running facter.

Regards, -Roy

Roy, is there any chance you can paste into this ticket the differences between 10.5.6 and 10.5.8 for this command?

system_profiler -xml SPHardwareDataType

If there is no difference, then I’ve got the type wrong, and please attach to this ticket two different files for the full:

system_profiler -xml

Thanks.

Roy —

Thanks.

— Markus

Roy, is there any chance we could get this info from you for actual Mac hardware rather than a VMware install?

There are some weird things that get reported via system profiler for virtual instances, and I’d like to check how the 99% case looks for this situation.

You can see how the info for some of this info isn’t really correct under 10.5.6 for the virtual instance, and I have a feeling from memory that the info is actually malformed in that situation and we may simply have to fail gracefully in Facter.

Hello,

I’ll try to get that information to you this morning.. I might have to re-install 10.5 on my older mini to get 10.5.6.

Regards, -Roy