Jira (PUP-2209) FreeBSD Service definition not working with missing rc.conf definition

[Dolf Schimmel (JIRA)]

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Dolf Schimmel created an issue   Puppet / PUP-2209 FreeBSD Service definition not working with missing rc.conf definition Issue Type: Bug Assignee: Unassigned Created: 09/Apr/14 4:18 PM Environment: Uname: FreeBSD hostname.example.org 9.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE #0 r255898: Thu Sep 26 22:50:31 UTC 2013 r...@bake.isc.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 {/quote} Server runs version 3.4.3 Client runs version: 3.4.2 Labels: freebsd Priority: Normal Reporter: Dolf Schimmel TL;DR When no service definition exists on FreeBSD in /etc/rc.conf.d will result in this error: Error: /Stage[main]/Dovecot/Service[dovecot]: Could not evaluate: undefined method `gsub' for nil:NilClass ------ Consider the following code: service { 'dovecot': ensure => running, name => dovecot, enable => true, } The error happens whenever the `enable` parameter/directive (what's the convention here?) is given. The outcome being the same, whether the value is either `false` or `true`. This resulted in the following error: Error: /Stage[main]/Dovecot/Service[dovecot]: Could not evaluate: undefined method `gsub' for nil:NilClass /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/provider/service/freebsd.rb:26:in `rcvar' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/provider/service/freebsd.rb:52:in `rcvar_value' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/provider/service/freebsd.rb:113:in `enabled?' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/type/service.rb:56:in `retrieve' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/type.rb:1045:in `block in retrieve' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/type.rb:1040:in `each' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/type.rb:1040:in `retrieve' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/type.rb:1063:in `retrieve_resource' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/transaction/resource_harness.rb:223:in `from_resource' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/transaction/resource_harness.rb:17:in `evaluate' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/transaction.rb:174:in `apply' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/transaction.rb:187:in `eval_resource' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/transaction.rb:117:in `call' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/transaction.rb:117:in `block (2 levels) in evaluate' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/util.rb:327:in `block in thinmark' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9/benchmark.rb:295:in `realtime' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/util.rb:326:in `thinmark' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/transaction.rb:117:in `block in evaluate' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/graph/relationship_graph.rb:118:in `traverse' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/transaction.rb:108:in `evaluate' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/resource/catalog.rb:164:in `block in apply' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/util/log.rb:149:in `with_destination' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/transaction/report.rb:108:in `as_logging_destination' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/resource/catalog.rb:163:in `apply' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/configurer.rb:125:in `block in apply_catalog' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/util.rb:161:in `block in benchmark' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9/benchmark.rb:295:in `realtime' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/util.rb:160:in `benchmark' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/configurer.rb:124:in `apply_catalog' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/configurer.rb:192:in `run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/agent.rb:44:in `block (4 levels) in run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/agent/locker.rb:20:in `lock' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/agent.rb:44:in `block (3 levels) in run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/agent.rb:114:in `with_client' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/agent.rb:41:in `block (2 levels) in run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/agent.rb:79:in `run_in_fork' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/agent.rb:40:in `block in run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/application.rb:179:in `call' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/application.rb:179:in `controlled_run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/agent.rb:38:in `run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/application/agent.rb:355:in `onetime' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/application/agent.rb:321:in `run_command' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/application.rb:364:in `block (2 levels) in run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/application.rb:470:in `plugin_hook' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/application.rb:364:in `block in run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/util.rb:478:in `exit_on_fail' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/application.rb:364:in `run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/util/command_line.rb:137:in `run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/puppet/util/command_line.rb:91:in `execute' /usr/local/bin/puppet:4:in `<main>' Merely ensuring the file is present (empty) doesn't fix this issue. The following however prevents this issue from occuring: sudo echo "# Added by puppet\ndovecot_enable='yes'" | sudo tee /etc/rc.conf.d/dovecot Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.