Jira (PUP-7821) Corrupt Windows environment variables crash Puppet

[Ethan Brown (JIRA)]

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Ethan Brown created an issue   Puppet / PUP-7821 Corrupt Windows environment variables crash Puppet Issue Type: Improvement Affects Versions: PUP 5.0.1, PUP 4.10.5 Assignee: Unassigned Components: Windows Created: 2017/08/08 10:43 AM Fix Versions: PUP 4.10.6 Priority: Major Reporter: Ethan Brown On Windows, a corrupt environment variable will crash Puppet when initializing settings with a stack like the following when running any command (like puppet agent or puppet facts): C:\>puppet facts --debug --verbose C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util/windows/api_types.rb:59:in `encode': "t\xDD" on UTF-16LE (Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError) from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util/windows/api_types.rb:59:in `read_wide_string' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util/windows/api_types.rb:76:in `block in read_arbitrary_wide_string_up_to' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util/windows/api_types.rb:75:in `each' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util/windows/api_types.rb:75:in `read_arbitrary_wide_string_up_to' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util/windows/process.rb:239:in `get_environment_strings' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util.rb:43:in `get_env' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/defaults.rb:273:in `block in <module:Puppet>' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/settings.rb:923:in `block in define_settings' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/settings.rb:922:in `each' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/settings.rb:922:in `define_settings' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet.rb:140:in `define_settings' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/defaults.rb:152:in `<module:Puppet>' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/defaults.rb:1:in `<top (required)>' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet.rb:175:in `<module:Puppet>' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet.rb:81:in `<top (required)>' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util/command_line.rb:12:in `<top (required)>' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/sys/ruby/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require' from C:/Program Files/Puppet Labs/Puppet/puppet/bin/puppet:3:in `<main>' Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029-sha1:ae256fe) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.