[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#662905: Bug#662905: undefined method `has_openstack_mac?' for Facter::Util::EC2:Module

[Florian Ernst]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 08:36:39AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach micah anderson <micah at riseup.net> [2012.03.07.2229 +0100]:
> > odd... I'm not seeing this message here. do you have any customized
> > facts in factpath (grep factpath /etc/puppet/puppet.conf for the
> > location, typically in /var/lib/puppet/facts or
> > /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter)?
> 
> There is one, named sslcert_fpr.rb:
> [...]

I, too, saw this message now that the package has migrated to testing.
I, too, have custom facts (lots of them).

> Indeed, if I move this out of the way, the next run completes
> without error.
> 
> However, even after the file is restore by puppet, the error does
> not appear anymore.

In my case removing the custom facts and letting puppet put them there
again didn't help at all.

What helped was restarting the puppet agent.

Here some log excerpts:

Mar  9 14:14:53 fernst puppet-agent[28386]: Could not run Puppet configuration client: Could not retrieve local facts: undefined method `has_openstack_mac?' for Facter::Util::EC2:Module
Mar  9 14:15:48 fernst puppet-agent[28386]: Caught TERM; calling stop
Mar  9 14:15:52 fernst puppet-agent[18033]: Reopening log files
Mar  9 14:15:53 fernst puppet-agent[18033]: Starting Puppet client version 2.7.11
Mar  9 14:16:55 fernst puppet-master[10026]: Compiled catalog for fernst.no-ip.org in environment production in 0.05 seconds
Mar  9 14:16:58 fernst puppet-agent[18033]: Finished catalog run in 0.32 seconds

It feels strange that running facter manually produces no error, whereas
facter when run from puppet can't find one of the methods defined in
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/facter/util/ec2.rb as called from
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/facter/ec2.rb, but has no problem finding the
other methods.

Hrm, puppet restart required after facter upgrade reminds me a bit of
#515726 ...

Cheers,
Flo