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I installed adrienthebo-facter-e28956d on my test system. With that in place, the prtdiag error is gone, and all of the key/value pairs in the output look reasonable.

I do see the following in STDERR, which might be interesting:

$ facter -d 1>/dev/null
prtconf: devinfo facility not available
/as/app/ruby/1.8.7-p334/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:73: command not found: dnsdomainname
sh: sysctl: not found

I was able to duplicate the prtconf output to stderr; for the other two I did not see. I believe these should be filed in a separate issue, and I can look into fixing them there.

Adrien Thebo wrote:

I was able to duplicate the prtconf output to stderr; for the other two I did not see. I believe these should be filed in a separate issue, and I can look into fixing them there.

Hi – has that been done? i.e. is the prtconf issue a separate ticket?

It’s easy enough to cater for by changing the prtconf to prtconf 2>/dev/null

Separate branch for removing the prtconf output can be found at #7726

Looks like it doesn’t work on T5220s either:

testing9s:puppet# facter
prtdiag: not implemented on SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220
Error: private method `split' called for nil:NilClass

These failures are really manifestations of #7753, which I’ll also fix. But to verify – on the Sun T5220, prtdiag only returns not implemented on SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220, right?

Adrien Thebo wrote:

These failures are really manifestations of #7753, which I’ll also fix. But to verify – on the Sun T5220, prtdiag only returns not implemented on SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220, right?

Correct. And yes, this is all 7753 really. Should be handling things like this much better.

Mark Phillips wrote:

Adrien Thebo wrote:

These failures are really manifestations of #7753, which I’ll also fix. But to verify – on the Sun T5220, prtdiag only returns not implemented on SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220, right?

Correct. And yes, this is all 7753 really. Should be handling things like this much better.

I realized that I didn’t ask this earlier – this is a zone on a sun T5220, right?

Adrien Thebo wrote:

Mark Phillips wrote:

Adrien Thebo wrote:

These failures are really manifestations of #7753, which I’ll also fix. But to verify – on the Sun T5220, prtdiag only returns not implemented on SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220, right?

Correct. And yes, this is all 7753 really. Should be handling things like this much better.

I realized that I didn’t ask this earlier – this is a zone on a sun T5220, right?

Hey Adrien,

In this case, no – it’s Solaris 9.

This, however, is a zone …

testing10s:~ root# facter facterversion
prtdiag can only be run in the global zone
Error: private method `split' called for nil:NilClass

Mark Phillips wrote:

This, however, is a zone …

[…]

Could you test the updated facter at https://github.com/adrienthebo/facter/tree/tickets/next/7038 and see if that works?

Adrien Thebo wrote:

Mark Phillips wrote:

This, however, is a zone …

[…]

Could you test the updated facter at https://github.com/adrienthebo/facter/tree/tickets/next/7038 and see if that works?

Hi Adrien,

Thanks – will try and get a chance to test over the weekend and let you know.

—Mark

uname -a
SunOS builder.int.otoh.org 5.11 snv_151a i86pc i386 i86pc

/opt/3rd-party/bin/facter  -v
1.5.9-adrienthebo

/opt/3rd-party/bin/facter  -d
Caught recursion on kernel
value for kernel is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for arp
value for arp is still nil
Not an EC2 host
prtconf: devinfo facility not available
Error: private method `split' called for nil:NilClass

Still errors out with error code 12

This is probably more useful:

/opt/3rd-party/bin/facter --trace --debug
Caught recursion on kernel
value for kernel is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for arp
value for arp is still nil
Not an EC2 host
prtconf: devinfo facility not available
/usr/ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/memory.rb:44:in `vmstat_find_free_memory': private method `split' called for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
        from /usr/ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/memory.rb:207
        from /usr/ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:73:in `load'
        from /usr/ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:73:in `load_file'
        from /usr/ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:38:in `load_all'
        from /usr/ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:33:in `each'
        from /usr/ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:33:in `load_all'
        from /usr/ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:30:in `each'
        from /usr/ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/loader.rb:30:in `load_all'
        from /usr/ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/collection.rb:90:in `load_all'
        from /usr/ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter.rb:102:in `to_hash'
        from /usr/ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/application.rb:14:in `run'
        from /opt/3rd-party/bin/facter:60

Paul,

Could you provide platform info for this? Does vmstat or prtconf provide any output on stdout on the host exhibiting errors?

There’s a separate bug here that I tripped up (related, you might want to fix it in the same change). If an externally called binary fails, facter propagates it as a stack trace rather than handling it properly.

vmstat fails on this host (I made a config change a broke a device file it needed). Once I make vmstat work again, your code works fine.

Is this the platform info you were after? ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i386-solaris2.11]

Here’s the facter output after I made vmstat work:

/opt/3rd-party/bin/facter -d
Caught recursion on kernel
value for kernel is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for arp
value for arp is still nil
Not an EC2 host
prtconf: devinfo facility not available
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for selinux
value for selinux is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for selinux_config_policy
value for selinux_config_policy is still nil
value for ipaddress6_builder0 is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 2 for architecture
value for architecture is still nil
value for ipaddress6 is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for arp_lo0
value for arp_lo0 is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for xendomains
value for xendomains is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 2 for lsbrelease
value for lsbrelease is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for arp
value for arp is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for selinux
value for selinux is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for selinux_config_mode
value for selinux_config_mode is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for vlans
value for vlans is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 2 for lsbdistid
value for lsbdistid is still nil
value for puppetversion is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 2 for lsbdistcodename
value for lsbdistcodename is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for selinux
value for selinux is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for selinux_current_mode
value for selinux_current_mode is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for selinux
value for selinux is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for lsbmajdistrelease
value for lsbmajdistrelease is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 2 for iphostnumber
value for iphostnumber is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for physicalprocessorcount
value for physicalprocessorcount is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for selinux
value for selinux is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for selinux_policyversion
value for selinux_policyversion is still nil
value for macaddress_lo0 is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 2 for architecture
value for architecture is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 2 for lsbdistrelease
value for lsbdistrelease is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for selinux
value for selinux is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for selinux_enforced
value for selinux_enforced is still nil
value for cfkey is still nil
value for ipaddress6_lo0 is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for arp_builder0
value for arp_builder0 is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for swapencrypted
value for swapencrypted is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 2 for lsbdistdescription
value for lsbdistdescription is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for selinux
value for selinux is still nil
Found no suitable resolves of 1 for selinux_mode
value for selinux_mode is still nil
domain => int.otoh.org
facterversion => 1.5.9-adrienthebo
fqdn => builder.int.otoh.org
hardwareisa => i386
hardwaremodel => i86pc
hostname => builder
id => root
interfaces => lo0,builder0
ipaddress => 172.16.32.90
ipaddress_builder0 => 172.16.32.90
ipaddress_lo0 => 127.0.0.1
is_virtual => true
kernel => SunOS
kernelmajversion => snv_151a
kernelrelease => 5.11
kernelversion => snv_151a
macaddress => 2:8:20:f3:8:75
macaddress_builder0 => 2:8:20:f3:8:75
memoryfree => 12.02 GB
memorysize => 15.75 GB
netmask => 255.255.255.0
netmask_builder0 => 255.255.255.0
netmask_lo0 => 255.0.0.0
network_builder0 => 172.16.32.0
network_lo0 => 127.0.0.0
operatingsystem => Solaris
operatingsystemrelease => 5.11
path => /usr/sbin:/usr/bin
ps => ps -ef
rubysitedir => /usr/ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
rubyversion => 1.8.7
sshdsakey => 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
sshrsakey => AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEA1CmNxlyilqbZUnVzLy7cAOW0ZrAzc9uP6arjltv4w+OzH9MwIBQ+Z91Od0L8iavTbT4dRyRdpPRS8Vi9yXNDZpwW6s/yL9hB4gpRsaabUBfhIYv9Hy4cFT/Qikcw3UdzbBcQpQAbJdTyncoLTxGcJjBm28tfo1cLylZnDUNBmLJwt1Ib97k2oQW49j6knfcHkqg3YBQp+m6pfVLPy1TclXtq+LGR06kdP7YiJyQqOe+wUGZtP21iwyAC2lPd4iXVmqu7d5OJU9XKtpz4A32XjeQ5MEfqNQrP0RYwvnSFL/MswV9MwMXKUea24bYAv92y8frIho9OyEcVmop1vPNyqQ==
swapfree => 7.87 GB
swapsize => 7.87 GB
timezone => UTC
uniqueid => 00c73c34
uptime => 15046 days
uptime_days => 15046
uptime_hours => 361114
uptime_seconds => 1300013493
virtual => zone

Paul – thanks for getting in there with the testing, I’ve not had the opportunity.

Looks better folks, but there’s still a small whinge:

root@testing10s # facter
prtdiag can only be run in the global zone
prtconf: devinfo facility not available

But then it does actually work, rather than bomb out.

Calling individual variables looks ok:

root@testing10s # facter facterversion
1.6.0

Mark Phillips wrote:

Looks better folks, but there’s still a small whinge:

[…]

But then it does actually work, rather than bomb out.

Calling individual variables looks ok:

[…]

This is stuff being pumped out on stderr, right? And is this against facter 1.6.0, or the updated branch in this ticket?

This was against your branch code Adrien.

Silencing the output for prtconf was actually done in #7726, in a separate branch. It should be merged in the next release of facter.