[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#573020: Bug#573020: exec don't work

[Nigel Kersten]

2010/3/11 José L. Redrejo <jredrejo at edu.juntaextremadura.net>:
> El lun, 08-03-2010 a las 08:44 -0800, Nigel Kersten escribió:
>> 2010/3/8 José L. Redrejo <jredrejo at edu.juntaextremadura.net>:
>> > Package: puppet
>> > Version: 0.25.4-2
>> > Severity: important
>> >
>> > whenever a class file including exec is executed at the client, the
>> > puppet client freezes.
>>
>> Can you provide a --debug --output --trace log with a simple local
>> manifest that only contains one exec please José?
>
> Hello Nigel, sorry for the delay, but I've prefered to do more checks
> with a colleague before answering.

That's quite ok, no need to apologize for helping with bug reports :)

>
> I'm attaching you a list of a very simple site.pp used, and the log
> outputs when using (and not using) the --debug option in the command
> line.
>
> For more fun, the bug doesn't appear everytime you executed puppetd, it
> only happens randomly, and it happens much more often if the debug
> option is not used.
>
> Anyway, I think you can reproduce it easily using a fresh squeeze
> installation at the client and server.
>
> I'm afraid the these symptoms are mostly as those described at
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/520715

That's exactly what I was afraid of. This bug is going to snowball ....