[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#675416: facter error `No LSB modules are available.`

[Chris Francy]

Package: facter
Version: 1.6.9-1~bpo60+1
Severity: important


The changes to facter (515fd65 (#11511) Split lsb facts into multiple
files)
seem to have broken things if you have lsb_release installed, but the
lsb-core
package is not installed.

An error `No LSB modules are available.` is sent to stderr each time facter
is run.

Specifically the error seems to come from line 16 in
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/facter/lsbrelease.rb
which runs the command `lsb_release -v -s`.

A really simple fix might be something like below, but perhaps some kind of
better error
handling is appropriate here.

--- lsbrelease.rb.orig 2012-05-31 17:30:52.000000000 -0700
+++ lsbrelease.rb 2012-05-31 17:31:07.000000000 -0700
@@ -13,6 +13,6 @@
 Facter.add(:lsbrelease) do
   confine :kernel => [ :linux, :"gnu/kfreebsd" ]
   setcode do
-    Facter::Util::Resolution.exec('lsb_release -v -s')
+    Facter::Util::Resolution.exec('lsb_release -v -s 2>/dev/null')
   end
 end



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (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/dash

Versions of packages facter depends on:
ii  bind9-host [host 1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze4 Version of 'host' bundled with
BIN
ii  net-tools        1.60-23                 The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii  ruby             4.5                     An interpreter of
object-oriented
ii  ruby-json        1.6.1-1~bpo60+1         JSON library for Ruby

Versions of packages facter recommends:
ii  dmidecode                     2.9-1.2    Dump Desktop Management
Interface
ii  pciutils                      1:3.1.7-6  Linux PCI Utilities

facter suggests no packages.

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