Hi Edward,

what is the output in irb of:

  require 'win32/dir'
  Dir::COMMON_APPDATA.encoding
  Dir::COMMON_APPDATA.bytes.to_a

I'm interested where this null byte is in that innocuous looking string.

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Edward Sumerfield
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The problem starts with requiring rspec-puppet but ends up in the puppet 3.0
> run_mode trying to determine Windows APPDATA pathing. The
> Dir::COMMON_APPDATA constant from win32-dir appears to be unicode which
> blows on the File.join call in run_mode line 67
>
> : irb
> irb(main):001:0> require "rspec-puppet"
> Failed to load feature test for root: uninitialized constant
> Windows::Synchronize
> ArgumentError: string contains null byte
>         from
> C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/puppet-3.0.0/lib/puppet/util/run_mode.rb:67:in
> `join'
>         from
> C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/puppet-3.0.0/lib/puppet/util/run_mode.rb:67:in
> `conf_dir'
>         from
> C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/puppet-3.0.0/lib/puppet/settings.rb:495:in
> `user_config_file'
>         from
> C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/puppet-3.0.0/lib/puppet/settings.rb:1234:in
> `which_configuration_file'
>         from
> C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/puppet-3.0.0/lib/puppet/settings.rb:475:in
> `parse_config_files'
>         from
> C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/puppet-3.0.0/lib/puppet/settings.rb:147:in
> `initialize_global_settings'
>
>         from
> C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/puppet-3.0.0/lib/puppet.rb:135:in
> `do_initialize_settings_for_run_mode'
>
>         from
> C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/puppet-3.0.0/lib/puppet.rb:123:in
> `initialize_settings'
>         from
> C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-puppet-0.1.5/lib/rspec-puppet.rb:10:in
> `<top (required)>'
>         from
> C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:60:in
> `require'
>         from
> C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:60:in `rescue
> in require'
>         from
> C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:35:in
> `require'
>         from (irb):1
>         from C:/ruby193/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
>
> Reproducing the specific line in question in irb like this:
>
> : irb
> irb(main):002:0> require 'win32/dir'
> => true
> irb(main):003:0> Dir::COMMON_APPDATA
> => "C:\\ProgramData"
> irb(main):006:0> File.join [Dir::COMMON_APPDATA, "PuppetLabs", "puppet",
> "etc"]
> ArgumentError: string contains null byte
>         from (irb):6:in `join'
>         from (irb):6
>         from C:/ruby193/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
>
>
> Installed versions:
>
> : ruby -v
> ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20) [i386-mingw32]
>
> : gem list
> *** LOCAL GEMS ***
> ...
> facter (1.6.13, 1.6.12)
> puppet (3.0.0, 2.7.19)
> puppetlabs_spec_helper (0.3.0)
> rspec (2.11.0, 2.10.0)
> rspec-puppet (0.1.5, 0.1.4)
> sys-admin (1.5.6 x86-mingw32)
> win32-api (1.4.8 x86-mingw32)
> win32-dir (0.4.1)
> win32-process (0.7.0)
> win32-security (0.1.4, 0.1.3)
> win32-service (0.7.2 x86-mingw32)
> win32-taskscheduler (0.2.2)
> windows-api (0.4.2)
> windows-pr (1.2.2)
>
> Thanks
>
> Ed Sumerfield
>
>
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