Jira (FACT-481) Infinite loop if EC2 metadata server times out

[Adrien Thebo (JIRA)]

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Adrien Thebo commented on an issue   Re: Infinite loop if EC2 metadata server times out I was unable to duplicate this on a virtualbox instance: [vagrant@centos6 facter]$ git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD facter-2 [vagrant@centos6 facter]$ git rev-parse HEAD 1a2577f90bec8f9e627c3fbdb16a49883c9e76a2 [vagrant@centos6 facter]$ git branch * facter-2 feature/facter-2/fact-451-cumulus-linux master revert/master/sync-master-and-facter-2 revert/stable/ec2-facts stable [vagrant@centos6 facter]$ FACTER_virtual='' bundle exec bin/facter [...] It returns nearly instantly. Kurt, judging by the errors in the output of facter there might be another installation of facter on the machine you were using, could you check to see if that could be the case? Add Comment   Facter / FACT-481 Infinite loop if EC2 metadata server times out On a Rackspace VM, Facter gets into an infinite loop when trying to contact the EC2 metadata server. The retry loop in lib/facter/ec2/rest.rb doesn't increment the counter on each iteration. This causes the Puppet agent to permanently hang. To reproduce on a non-Rackspace system, just run: FACTER_virtual=xen bin/facter (Assuming there's no metada... 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.