[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#854680: service resource cannot be disabled, spews error messages

[Bernhard Schmidt]

Source: puppet
Version: 4.8.2-1
Severity: important

Hi,

please note that this is not a duplicate of #854487 (although related because
my manifest tried to disable the puppet service).

Puppet on Stretch spews an error message about a wrong invocation of dpkg
--compare-version on stderr when trying to disable a service.

root at dns-q-neu:~# puppet resource service puppet enable='false' --debug
Debug: Runtime environment: puppet_version=4.8.2, ruby_version=2.3.3, run_mode=user, default_encoding=UTF-8
Debug: Evicting cache entry for environment 'production'
Debug: Caching environment 'production' (ttl = 0 sec)
Debug: Evicting cache entry for environment 'production'
Debug: Caching environment 'production' (ttl = 0 sec)
Debug: Evicting cache entry for environment 'production'
Debug: Caching environment 'production' (ttl = 0 sec)
Debug: Evicting cache entry for environment 'production'
Debug: Caching environment 'production' (ttl = 0 sec)
Debug: Evicting cache entry for environment 'production'
Debug: Caching environment 'production' (ttl = 0 sec)
Debug: Failed to load library 'cfpropertylist' for feature 'cfpropertylist'
Debug: Puppet::Type::Service::ProviderInit: false value when expecting true
Debug: Puppet::Type::Service::ProviderUpstart: 0 confines (of 4) were true
Debug: Puppet::Type::Service::ProviderDaemontools: file /usr/bin/svc does not exist
Debug: Puppet::Type::Service::ProviderRunit: file /usr/bin/sv does not exist
Debug: Puppet::Type::Service::ProviderOpenbsd: file /usr/sbin/rcctl does not exist
Debug: Puppet::Type::Service::ProviderOpenrc: file /bin/rc-status does not exist
Debug: Puppet::Type::Service::ProviderGentoo: file /sbin/rc-update does not exist
Debug: Puppet::Type::Service::ProviderRedhat: file /sbin/chkconfig does not exist
Debug: Puppet::Type::Service::ProviderLaunchd: file /bin/launchctl does not exist
Debug: Loaded state in 0.03 seconds
Debug: Loaded transaction store file in 0.00 seconds
dpkg: error: --compare-versions takes three arguments: <version> <relation> <version>

Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
Use 'apt' or 'aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;

Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through 'less' or 'more' !
Debug: Executing: '/usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f puppet remove'
Debug: Executing: '/usr/sbin/update-rc.d puppet stop 00 1 2 3 4 5 6 .'
Notice: /Service[puppet]/enable: enable changed 'true' to 'false'
Debug: Finishing transaction 47004484109700
Debug: Storing state
Debug: Stored state in 0.03 seconds
service { 'puppet':
  enable => 'true',
}

Additionally it does not actually disable the service at all. But this might be
a bug in update-rc.d.

Bernhard