Jira (PUP-2565) Puppet Agent refuse to use cached catalog when connection to master fails

[Joshua Cooper (JIRA)]

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Joshua Cooper commented on an issue   Re: Puppet Agent refuse to use cached catalog when connection to master fails Hi Andre Hurano, it sounds like you are using --test, which disables use of the cached catalog among other things. See https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/3.5.1/lib/puppet/application/agent.rb#L257-L260. If I don't specify --test and the agent can't connect to the master, then it does fall back to the cached catalog: root@ubuntu1310:/var/lib/puppet# service apache2 start root@ubuntu1310:/var/lib/puppet# puppet agent --no-daemonize --onetime -v Info: Retrieving plugin Info: Caching catalog for ubuntu1310.corp.puppetlabs.net Info: Applying configuration version '1400046272' Notice: Finished catalog run in 0.01 seconds root@ubuntu1310:/var/lib/puppet# service apache2 stop * Stopping web server apache2 * root@ubuntu1310:/var/lib/puppet# puppet agent --no-daemonize --onetime -v ... Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Connection refused - connect(2) Notice: Using cached catalog Info: Applying configuration version '1400046272' Notice: Finished catalog run in 0.01 seconds Can you verify that that resolves the issue, and if so, close this? Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-2565 Puppet Agent refuse to use cached catalog when connection to master fails I am considering deploying Puppet to an unreliable network, and it is important that we have some desired state management occurring on the nodes even when the Puppet master is down or uncontactable. I have been testing Puppet's cached catalog to see if that would be a solution, the idea being it would execute the cached catalog when the agent fails to... 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.