Issue #14298 has been updated by Will Dowling.
Confirmed this - came across this myself with a fresh installation. Platform: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS Puppet Version: 3.2.3 (Open Source) On a fresh master/agent install via puppetlabs APT, if any part of the path is a symlink agents will fail to pluginsync with the following message: Error: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]: Could not evaluate: Could not retrieve information from environment production source(s) puppet://master/plugins In this case, the path /etc/puppet/modules was a symlink to an empty folder elsewhere on the filesystem. Replacing the symlink with an empty folder caused the behaviour to dissapear. ---------------------------------------- Bug #14298: pluginsync does not work if the module is a symlink https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/14298#change-95300 * Author: Thomas Vander Stichele * Status: Investigating * Priority: Normal * Assignee: Patrick Carlisle * Category: plug-ins * Target version: * Affected Puppet version: 2.6.16 * Keywords: * Branch: ---------------------------------------- I had the firewall module as a symlink to a directory checkout in a user directory. When trying to run puppet agent, I got: [root@ana puppet]# puppet agent --server ana.amantes --test --pluginsync info: Retrieving plugin err: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]: Could not evaluate: Could not retrieve information from environment production source(s) puppet://ana.amantes/plugins info: Loading facts in iptables info: Loading facts in iptables err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Puppet::Parser::AST::Resource failed with error ArgumentError: Invalid resource type firewall at /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp:6 on node ana.amantes warning: Not using cache on failed catalog err: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run Removing the symlink and replacing it with a copy of the actual module directory for firewall, it did work. So I conclude that symlinks aren't treated properly but ignored. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
