Jira (PUP-11774) Adding lots of hosts on Windows results in "permission denied" errors for some of them

['Dirk Heinrichs (Jira)' via Puppet Bugs]

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Dirk Heinrichs commented on PUP-11774   Re: Adding lots of hosts on Windows results in "permission denied" errors for some of them Josh Cooper, thanks for looking into it. You wrote "multiple", but your output only shows adding two hosts. As I wrote in the description, you'd need to add at least 20 to 30 host entries in one agent run for the error to show up and then it also doesn't happen all the time. The complete error message is: Error: Puppet::Util::FileType::FileTypeFlat could not write C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts: Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts Error: /Stage[init]/Hosts/Host[XXX]: Could not evaluate: Puppet::Util::FileType::FileTypeFlat could not write C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts: Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts and it shows up after multiple tens of entries have already been created w/o problems, and afterwards another bunch of entries is created. Sometimes this happens multiple times during one agent run, sometimes not at all. "Permission denied" showing up on a Windows host after lots of successful writes to the same file usually indicates a locking problem, rather than a real permission problem. Maybe this can be solved/worked around by simply adding a retry... Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.21#820021-sha1:38274c8) -- 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.482158.1677828568000.9398.1686724140024%40Atlassian.JIRA.