Issue #4035 has been updated by Klavs Klavsen.

Unfortunately the latest mod_rails and passenger requires new ruby packages 
etc. etc. - and we're running it on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. I'm working on installing 
a 10.04 LTS and setting it up there instead to see if mod_rails help - but 
still - if it is a performance problem - shouldn't the client's atleast "try 
again" - or the server handle it better - depending on what triggers this 
failure to retrieve metadata ?

And the problem has gotten a LOT worse (if it at all were there before) - with 
the same amount of clients on the exact same puppetmaster server - after 
upgrading from 0.24.8 to 0.25.5. It may be that 0.25.5 uses the resources 
"more" - but if I look at my dstat graphs (which collect all the interesting 
resource stats) - I see no spikes when these failures appear - and it's 
generally between 80 and a 100% idle all the time. In the short term graphs (4 
hours) - I found one time where the cpu-idle went to ~0% - and there was 1 
"complaint" from a puppet client in that period - but there were just as many 
before and long after this - where the graphs looks fine.

Would it help - if I ran the puppetmaster in debug mode - and dumped it to a 
log file? (as long as it syslogs the debug info - it's timestamped).
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Bug #4035: random error: Failed to retrieve current state of resource: Could 
not retrieve file metadata
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4035

Author: Klavs Klavsen
Status: Needs more information
Priority: Normal
Assigned to: 
Category: 
Target version: 
Affected version: 0.25.5
Keywords: 
Branch: 


complete line is:
puppetd[7423]: 
(//puppet::client/Conffile[/etc/default/puppet]/File[/etc/default/puppet]) 
Failed to retrieve current state of resource: Could not retrieve file metadata 
for puppet:///puppet/puppet: at 
/etc/puppet/modules/functions/manifests/init.pp:12

It shows up random on different hosts - at a rate of a few an hour.

It seems to be new with our recent upgrade from 0.24.8 to 0.25.5 - or atleast 
increased greatly.

Pls. tell me what more information I can provide that can be of help.

p.s. could in possibly be a performance issue of sorts? we have 88 clients - 
running at 30minute intervals - with puppetmaster running on a vmware virtual 
linux server - running standard webrick daemon.


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