[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#769621: puppet: USR1 fails to trigger agent run

[Chris Kuehl]

Package: puppet
Version: 3.7.2-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Hi maintainer,

We normally use `kill -USR1` on the puppet agent process to trigger an agent
run without restarting the process.

When attempting this on jessie (rather than wheezy), a run is not triggered,
and the following is logged to syslog:

> Nov 14 21:10:48 eruption puppet-agent[21975]: Caught USR1; calling reload
> Nov 14 21:10:48 eruption puppet-agent[12969]: Could not autoload puppet/indirector/node/rest: current thread not owner
> Nov 14 21:10:48 eruption puppet-agent[12969]: Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue:
> Nov 14 21:10:48 eruption puppet-agent[12969]: Could not autoload puppet/indirector/node/rest: current thread not owner
> Nov 14 21:10:48 eruption puppet-agent[12969]: Could not autoload puppet/feature/external_facts: current thread not owner
> Nov 14 21:10:48 eruption puppet-agent[12969]: Failed to apply catalog: Could not autoload puppet/feature/external_facts: current thread not owner

This is upstream bug PUP-1635:
https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-1635

The bug is also present when we use the Puppetlabs APT repository (rather than
the Debian jessie archive), which contains version 3.7.3-1puppetlabs1 of
puppet.

Many thanks,
Chris



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
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 puppet depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers         1.21
ii  puppet-common               3.7.2-1
ii  ruby                        1:2.1.0.4
ii  ruby2.1 [ruby-interpreter]  2.1.4-1

puppet recommends no packages.

Versions of packages puppet suggests:
pn  etckeeper   <none>
pn  puppet-el   <none>
pn  vim-puppet  <none>

-- no debconf information