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<p>Package: puppet-agent<br>
Version: 7.20.0</p>
<p>Puppet is occasionally logging an exception in syslog<br>
... <i>MSG: undefined method message for #String ...</i></p>
<p><i>I tracked this done to calls to the log_exception(exception)
method in <br>
/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/facter/framework/logging/logger.rb</i></p>
<p><i>log_exception(exception) is expecting an exception class, but
when called from these two places, it is being passed a String,
hence the error message<br>
/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/facter/custom_facts/util/fact.rb<br>
/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/facter/custom_facts/util/collection.rb</i></p>
<p><i>either </i><i>logger.rb should handle String arguments, or it
shouldn't be being called with String arguments.</i></p>
<p><i>A quick fix to logger.rb would be <br>
</i></p>
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if exception.respond_to?(:message)
msg = exception.message
msg += "\n" + exception.backtrace.join("\n") if Options[:trace]
else
msg = exception
end
error(msg, true)
end</pre>
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<p>Alternately, fact.rb and collection.rb could pass through the
exception, or handle the backtrace themselves.</p>
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