Puppet

I use the puppet gem on my clients, and I don’t use a puppet user/group on those machines. After upgrading to 2.6 puppet no longer works and complains about needing a puppet group. I think a good solution would either be to have the puppet executable create the user (less ideal), add documentation for upgrading the gem about the need to add users (even less ideal), or just not requiring the user/group (yay!).

My hunch is that this story is related, sorry if this is just a total dup – http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4284

Here’s some output:

[root@andrew102 ~]# puppetd -tv --trace --debug
debug: Failed to load library 'selinux' for feature 'selinux'
debug: Puppet::Type::User::ProviderDirectoryservice: file /usr/bin/dscl does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::User::ProviderUser_role_add: file roleadd does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::User::ProviderLdap: true value when expecting false
debug: Puppet::Type::User::ProviderPw: file pw does not exist
debug: Puppet::Type::File::ProviderMicrosoft_windows: feature microsoft_windows is missing
debug: Failed to load library 'ldap' for feature 'ldap'
debug: /File[/etc/puppet/ssl/certificate_requests]: Autorequiring File[/etc/puppet/ssl]
debug: /File[/etc/puppet/ssl/certs/ca.pem]: Autorequiring File[/etc/puppet/ssl/certs]
debug: /File[/etc/puppet/ssl/private_keys]: Autorequiring File[/etc/puppet/ssl]
debug: /File[/var/lib/puppet/state/state.yaml]: Autorequiring File[/var/lib/puppet/state]
debug: /File[/etc/puppet/ssl/certs]: Autorequiring File[/etc/puppet/ssl]
debug: /File[/var/lib/puppet/client_yaml]: Autorequiring File[/var/lib/puppet]
debug: /File[/etc/puppet/ssl]: Autorequiring File[/etc/puppet]
debug: /File[/etc/puppet/ssl/private]: Autorequiring File[/etc/puppet/ssl]
debug: /File[/var/lib/puppet/state]: Autorequiring File[/var/lib/puppet]
debug: /File[/etc/puppet/ssl/private_keys/andrew102.kongregate.com.pem]: Autorequiring File[/etc/puppet/ssl/private_keys]
debug: /File[/var/lib/puppet/state/classes.txt]: Autorequiring File[/var/lib/puppet/state]
debug: /File[/var/lib/puppet/run]: Autorequiring File[/var/lib/puppet]
debug: /File[/etc/puppet/ssl/public_keys/andrew102.kongregate.com.pem]: Autorequiring File[/etc/puppet/ssl/public_keys]
debug: /File[/etc/puppet/ssl/crl.pem]: Autorequiring File[/etc/puppet/ssl]
debug: /File[/etc/puppet/ssl/public_keys]: Autorequiring File[/etc/puppet/ssl]
debug: /File[/var/lib/puppet/reports]: Autorequiring File[/var/lib/puppet]
debug: /File[/var/lib/puppet/log]: Autorequiring File[/var/lib/puppet]
debug: /File[/etc/puppet/ssl/certs/andrew102.kongregate.com.pem]: Autorequiring File[/etc/puppet/ssl/certs]
debug: /File[/var/lib/puppet/clientbucket]: Autorequiring File[/var/lib/puppet]
debug: /File[/var/lib/puppet/facts]: Autorequiring File[/var/lib/puppet]
debug: /File[/var/lib/puppet/client_data]: Autorequiring File[/var/lib/puppet]
debug: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]: Autorequiring File[/var/lib/puppet]
debug: /File[/var/lib/puppet/state/graphs]: Autorequiring File[/var/lib/puppet/state]
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/parameter.rb:171:in `fail'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/type/file/group.rb:54:in `insync?'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/type/file/group.rb:50:in `each'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/type/file/group.rb:50:in `insync?'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/transaction/resource_harness.rb:148:in `param_is_insync?'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/transaction/resource_harness.rb:56:in `changes_to_perform'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/transaction/resource_harness.rb:53:in `reject'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/transaction/resource_harness.rb:53:in `changes_to_perform'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/transaction/resource_harness.rb:87:in `evaluate'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/transaction.rb:49:in `apply'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/transaction.rb:114:in `eval_children_and_apply_resource'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/transaction.rb:92:in `eval_resource'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/transaction.rb:143:in `evaluate'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/util.rb:414:in `thinmark'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:308:in `realtime'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/util.rb:413:in `thinmark'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/transaction.rb:142:in `evaluate'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/transaction.rb:135:in `each'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/transaction.rb:135:in `evaluate'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/resource/catalog.rb:144:in `apply'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/util/settings.rb:632:in `use'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/sync.rb:230:in `synchronize'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/util/settings.rb:615:in `use'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/application/agent.rb:220:in `setup'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/application.rb:300:in `run'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/application.rb:398:in `exit_on_fail'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/application.rb:300:in `run'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/bin/puppetd:4
/usr/local/bin/puppetd:19:in `load'
/usr/local/bin/puppetd:19
err: /File[/var/lib/puppet/reports]: Could not evaluate: Could not find group puppet
debug: Finishing transaction 23763987549540
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/util/settings.rb:636:in `use'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/resource/catalog.rb:157:in `apply'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/util/settings.rb:632:in `use'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/sync.rb:230:in `synchronize'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/util/settings.rb:615:in `use'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/application/agent.rb:220:in `setup'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/application.rb:300:in `run'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/application.rb:398:in `exit_on_fail'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/lib/puppet/application.rb:300:in `run'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.6.0/bin/puppetd:4
/usr/local/bin/puppetd:19:in `load'
/usr/local/bin/puppetd:19
Could not prepare for execution: Got 1 failure(s) while initializing: Could not evaluate: Could not find group puppet