Re: client update to 0.23.2: "Could not find value for"

On 19/10/2007, at 20:13, Luke Kanies wrote:

> On Oct 19, 2007, at 8:08 AM, David Escala wrote:
>
>> hi all,
>>
>> we maintain about 30 puppet managed nodes. the version of the
>> clients is 0.23.0 and 0.23.1. the master is 0.23.0.
>>
>> today we installed a new CentOS 5 node with David Lutterkort's
>> puppet 0.23.2 rpm. this host is a reinstall of an old FC4 on new
>> hardware.
>>
>> we are getting this error on 0.23.2, never happened before:
>>
>> | Could not retrieve configuration:
>> | Failed to parse template ssh/ssh_config.erb:
>> | Could not find value for 'initr_ports' at /var/lib/puppet/modules/
>> ssh/manifests/init.pp:17
>>
>> this is the external nodes yaml:
>> [...]
>> as you can see "initr_ports" is defined, but the ssh module does
>> not see it? has variable scope changed in 023.2? (this worked 10
>> minutes ago with client 0.23.1 on FC4)
>
> If you've only upgraded a client and not a server... then you
> shouldn't see any difference at all, because the external nodes and
> templating are both entirely server-side.
>
> Is there something else about your configuration we might need to  
> know?

you are right. it is a server issue. happens in all clients.

we are not getting reports (tagmail) on this error, and only noticed  
it when installing a new node from scratch. looks like it stopped  
working some time ago, but it used to work. al least one time for  
each node :)

puppetmaster calls the external_nodes script correctly. and this  
script produces a correct yaml. it seems puppetmaster is getting the  
classes array right, but not the parameters hash.

notice("initr_ports='$initr_ports'") on site.ini gives an empty  
initr_ports='' in the log.

is there a way to debug this on the puppetmaster?

this is the server's puppet.conf:

[main]
     servertype = mongrel
     external_nodes = ...
     ....
[puppetmasterd]
     masterport = 8000
     reports = tagmail2
     storeconfigs = true
     db.....

thank you,

d.