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

[Robin Sheat]

On Monday 30 March 2009 21:03:57 you wrote:
> I cannot reproduce the bug with 0.24.7-1~bpo50~madduck+2. Please
> confirm that's the version you are using.

$ apt-cache policy puppet
puppet:
  Installed: 0.24.7-1~bpo50~madduck+2
  Candidate: 0.24.7-1~bpo50~madduck+2
  Version table:
 *** 0.24.7-1~bpo50~madduck+2 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.24.5-3 0
        500 http://ftp.nz.debian.org lenny/main Packages

I'd test more, but I'm working on the puppet config at the moment, and 
switching between cron and daemon too much becomes problematic when I'm doing 
that. But I did see a huge number of CLOSE_WAITs that I'm confident were with 
this version. Note that it doesn't always seem to come up. For example, I see 
it on a set of openvz servers that are on the same hardware node as the 
master, but I didn't see any when configuring an EC2 server talking to the 
same puppetmaster, but over the internet (via vpn). However, the EC2 server 
only had a generic configuration, so it's not conclusive.

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