[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#502193: "the other end went away" puppet warnings are symptoms of a nasty bug

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Robin Sheat <robin at kallisti.net.nz> [2009.03.23.0335 +0100]:
> I have puppet managing a handful of VMs, and see this "other end went away" 
> error a lot. As noted in #64, it leaves a lot of CLOSE_WAIT connections lying 
> around. Before long, these fill up the connection table make it very difficult 
> to SSH into the machine to repair.

It's an upstream bug, to be fixed in 0.24.8. If you need a fix
before that, one possibility is to install my backported packages
which you can find at
http://debian.madduck.net/repo/pool/main/p/puppet or with this line
in sources.list:

  deb http://debian.madduck.net/repo lenny-backports main

Those have the patch applied which fixes the problem.

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