Jira (PUP-10210) puppet fails with JSON error when a fact value equals Infinity

[Thomas Kishel (JIRA)]

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Thomas Kishel created an issue   Puppet / PUP-10210 puppet fails with JSON error when a fact value equals Infinity Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: PUP 6.10.1 Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2019/12/26 11:04 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Thomas Kishel Puppet Version: 6.10 and possibly earlier A fact converted to / interpreted as (Ruby) Infinity generates a JSON error when executing puppet agent or puppet facts The same error does not occur when executing facter -p Desired Behavior: No JSON error via puppet Actual Behavior:  Given: puppet config print maxwaitforcert unlimited Create a custom fact for maxwaitforcert: Facter.add('maxwaitforcert') do setcode do Puppet.settings['maxwaitforcert'] end end [root@pe-201921-master ~]# puppet facts Error: 862: Infinity not allowed in JSON Error: Try 'puppet help facts find' for usage [root@pe-201921-master ~]# puppet agent -t Info: Using configured environment 'production' Info: Retrieving pluginfacts Info: Retrieving plugin Info: Retrieving locales Info: Loading facts Error: Failed to apply catalog: Could not render to json: 862: Infinity not allowed in JSON Versus: [root@pe-201921-master ~]# facter -p maxwaitforcert inf   Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.7.1#77002-sha1:e75ca93) -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-bugs/JIRA.340709.1577387077000.9483.1577387100213%40Atlassian.JIRA.