[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#850437: (no subject)

[Nigel Horne]

Package: puppet
Version: 4.8.1-1
Severity: normal

Puppet fails to start but doesn't say why or what to change to correct it.

systemctl start puppet.service
Job for puppet.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status puppet.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
root at gateway:/var/log/syslog/local# systemctl status puppet.service
● puppet.service - LSB: puppet agent
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/puppet; generated; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2017-01-06 14:18:05 GMT; 5s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 14879 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/puppet start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jan 06 14:18:05 gateway systemd[1]: Starting LSB: puppet agent...
Jan 06 14:18:05 gateway puppet[14879]: Starting puppet agent failed!
Jan 06 14:18:05 gateway systemd[1]: puppet.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jan 06 14:18:05 gateway systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: puppet agent.
Jan 06 14:18:05 gateway systemd[1]: puppet.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jan 06 14:18:05 gateway systemd[1]: puppet.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.


journalctl -xe gives no output related to Puppet.

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

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages puppet depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.115
ii  facter                        2.4.6-1
ii  hiera                         3.2.0-2
ii  lsb-base                      9.20161125
ii  ruby                          1:2.3.3
ii  ruby-augeas                   1:0.5.0-3+b4
ii  ruby-deep-merge               1.1.1-1
ii  ruby-rgen                     0.8.0-1
ii  ruby-safe-yaml                1.0.4-1
ii  ruby-shadow                   2.4.1-1+b3
ii  ruby1.9.1 [ruby-interpreter]  1.9.3.484-2
ii  ruby2.0 [ruby-interpreter]    2.0.0.484+really457-3
ii  ruby2.1 [ruby-interpreter]    2.1.5-4
ii  ruby2.2 [ruby-interpreter]    2.2.4-1

Versions of packages puppet recommends:
ii  debconf-utils  1.5.59
ii  lsb-release    9.20161125
ii  ruby-selinux   2.6-3

Versions of packages puppet suggests:
pn  ruby-rrd  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/puppet/puppet.conf changed:
[main]
logdir=/var/log/puppet
vardir=/var/lib/puppet
ssldir=/var/lib/puppet/ssl
rundir=/run/puppet
factpath=$vardir/lib/facter
server=gateway.bandsman.co.uk
environment=barnsley
[master]
ssl_client_header = SSL_CLIENT_S_DN 
ssl_client_verify_header = SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY
vardir = /var/lib/puppet
cadir  = /var/lib/puppet/ssl/ca
dns_alt_names = puppet
certname=gateway.bandsman.co.uk


-- no debconf information