[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#518831: puppet: Default configuration is broken

[Tristan Seligmann]

Package: puppet
Version: 0.24.5-3
Severity: important

A brand new installation of puppet appears to have a broken default
configuration, but puppetd is still started, resulting in massive syslog
spew:

Mar  7 06:29:50 azure puppetd[29008]: Could not find server puppet: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
Mar  7 06:29:50 azure puppetd[29008]: Could not request certificate: Certificate retrieval failed: Could not find server puppet
Mar  7 06:29:55 azure puppetd[29008]: Could not find server puppet: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
Mar  7 06:29:55 azure puppetd[29008]: Could not request certificate: Certificate retrieval failed: Could not find server puppet
Mar  7 06:30:00 azure puppetd[29008]: Could not find server puppet: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
Mar  7 06:30:00 azure puppetd[29008]: Could not request certificate: Certificate retrieval failed: Could not find server puppet
Mar  7 06:30:05 azure puppetd[29008]: Could not find server puppet: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
Mar  7 06:30:05 azure puppetd[29008]: Could not request certificate: Certificate retrieval failed: Could not find server puppet

Note the timestamps. If the default configuration is not functional,
then there should be some arrangement to avoid starting puppetd under
these circumstances.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages puppet depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
ii  facter                        1.5.1-0.1  a library for retrieving facts fro
ii  libopenssl-ruby               4.2        OpenSSL interface for Ruby
ii  libruby [libxmlrpc-ruby]      4.2        Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii  libshadow-ruby1.8             1.4.1-8    Interface of shadow password for R
ii  libxmlrpc-ruby                4.2        transitional dummy package
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-20     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  ruby                          4.2        An interpreter of object-oriented 

Versions of packages puppet recommends:
ii  rdoc                          4.2        Generate documentation from ruby s

puppet suggests no packages.

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