[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#519803: puppet: LoadError exception in fact can kill puppetd

[Stephen Gran]

Package: puppet
Version: 0.24.5-3
Severity: normal

We recently stumbled on a bug unrelated to puppet where a bunch of armel
ruby binary modules are installed in the wrong path.  Unfortunately, one
of the affected modules happened to be one we were using in a new fact.
The LoadError exception took down puppetd on all the armel machines as a
result.  This should be avoidable by catching exceptions and logging
them, rather than letting them kill puppetd.

Cheers,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: ia64

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28.4-dsa-mckinley (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
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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