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

[Apollon Oikonomopoulos]

Control: tags -1 - moreinfo + confirmed
Control: merge -1 826730
Control: priority -1 important

On 14:28 Mon 16 Jan     , Apollon Oikonomopoulos wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 puppet: service fails to start
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 14:21 Fri 06 Jan     , Nigel Horne wrote:
> > 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)
>                      ^ Now, this is a bit weird since puppet-agent 
> 4.8.1-1 includes a native systemd unit, but your system seems to be 
> using the one generated from the initscript (and this should never
> happen). Did you reboot since upgrading puppet?

On a second thought, this is absolutely expected. We renamed the service 
to puppet-agent (from puppet) but failed to remove the initscript, which 
is probably still the old 3.x version. This is actually a duplicate of 
#826730 and will be fixed with the next upload.

Regards,
Apollon