[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#962784: Bug#962784: facter aborts with free(): invalid pointer

[Stig Sandbeck Mathisen]

Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> writes:

> Package: facter
> Version: 3.11.0-4.1
> Severity: grave
>
> facter no longer works at all on amd64.  When invoked, it dies with
> an invalid pointer error:

Looks like the same bug as http://bugs.debian.org/962692 and related to
https://bugs.debian.org/962320

A quick workaround to get facter to run is to create the three
directories:

/etc/facter/facts.d
/etc/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d
/opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d


    root at bts962784-facter:~# facter
    free(): invalid pointer
    Aborted
    
    root at bts962784-facter:~# mkdir -p /opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d /etc/facter/facts.d /etc/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d
    
    root at bts962784-facter:~# facter
    disks => {
      nvme0n1 => {
    [...]

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Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Debian Developer