Issue #17613 has been updated by Vaidas Jablonskis.
The reason that many people do not suffer from this issue is that init scripts avoid using SIGHUP to reload the service, instead they use 'stop / restart' to reload the service. Puppet package in Fedora comes with systemd unit files, which are broken actually, I am fixing them and that's the reason I found this puppet master behaviour when I tried to implement reload in systemd puppet service files in a way puppet suggests. Either way I think the way puppet handles SIGHUP is broken and needs fixing or SIGHUP handling needs to be removed. ---------------------------------------- Bug #17613: puppet master ignores config and commandline parameters on SIGHUP https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/17613#change-83439 Author: Tom Fenri Status: Needs More Information Priority: High Assignee: Tom Fenri Category: server Target version: 3.x Affected Puppet version: 3.0.1 Keywords: Branch: We are using puppet version 3.0.1 on FreeBSD 8.1, installed from ports. $confdir is /home/share/puppet/, puppet master is running as user 'puppet'. rc.conf: puppetmaster_enable="YES" puppetmaster_flags="--confdir=/home/share/puppet --rundir=/var/run/puppet" When started via /usr/local/etc/rc.d/puppetmaster everything works fine, process looks like: puppet 58577 4.7 0.9 121420 71124 ?? Ss 1:05PM 3:18.22 /usr/local/bin/ruby18 /usr/local/bin/puppet master --confdir=/home/share/puppet --rundir=/var/run/puppet When reloaded with "kill -HUP $pid", which happens sometimes by newsyslog, it seems to forget all settings and tries to do things in /root/.puppet: Nov 14 13:38:22 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: Caught HUP; calling restart Nov 14 13:38:22 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: Restarting with '/usr/local/bin/puppet master --confdir=/home/share/puppet --rundir=/var/run/puppet' Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: Cannot create /root/.puppet/var; parent directory /root/.puppet does not exist Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: (/File[/root/.puppet/var]/ensure) change from absent to directory failed: Cannot create /root/.puppet/var; parent directory /root/.puppet does not exist Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: (/File[/root/.puppet/var/lib]) Dependency File[/root/.puppet/var] has failures: true Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: (/File[/root/.puppet/var/lib]) Skipping because of failed dependencies Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: (/File[/root/.puppet/var/server_data]) Dependency File[/root/.puppet/var] has failures: true Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: (/File[/root/.puppet/var/server_data]) Skipping because of failed dependencies Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: (/File[/root/.puppet/var/bucket]) Dependency File[/root/.puppet/var] has failures: true Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: (/File[/root/.puppet/var/bucket]) Skipping because of failed dependencies Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: (/File[/root/.puppet/var/reports]) Dependency File[/root/.puppet/var] has failures: true Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: (/File[/root/.puppet/var/reports]) Skipping because of failed dependencies Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: (/File[/root/.puppet/var/state]) Dependency File[/root/.puppet/var] has failures: true Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: (/File[/root/.puppet/var/state]) Skipping because of failed dependencies Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: (/File[/root/.puppet/var/yaml]) Dependency File[/root/.puppet/var] has failures: true Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: (/File[/root/.puppet/var/yaml]) Skipping because of failed dependencies Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: (/File[/root/.puppet/var/rrd]) Dependency File[/root/.puppet/var] has failures: true Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: (/File[/root/.puppet/var/rrd]) Skipping because of failed dependencies Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: (/File[/root/.puppet/var/log]) Dependency File[/root/.puppet/var] has failures: true Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: (/File[/root/.puppet/var/log]) Skipping because of failed dependencies Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: (/File[/root/.puppet/var/log/masterhttp.log]) Dependency File[/root/.puppet/var] has failures: true Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: (/File[/root/.puppet/var/log/masterhttp.log]) Skipping because of failed dependencies Nov 14 13:38:24 isptsfits21 puppet-master[58577]: Could not prepare for execution: Got 2 failure(s) while initializing: Cannot create /root/.puppet/var; parent directory /root/.puppet does not exist; change from absent to directory failed: Cannot create /root/.puppet/var; parent directory /root/.puppet does not exist After the last error the process dies and has to be restarted manually. As already said, it runs as user 'puppet' which doesn't have permissions to fiddle around in /root and /root/.puppet doesn't exist either. $HOME of user 'puppet' is /nonexistent. The default configfile /usr/local/etc/puppet/puppet.conf is configured to point to the right directories as well (see attachment). -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
