The only time I see these errors is when the date on my client is  
screwed up. Sorry if that doesn't help.

-Jason

On Mar 27, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Trevor <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hello to All,
>
>
> I've setup 5 centos hosts that all work fine but after signing my
> debian client request I get
>
>
> Certificate validation failed; consider using the certname
> configuration option
>
> on the debian client.  Never seen this error message before.  Several
> times i've rm -rf /etc/puppet/ssl to force it to issue a new
> certificate request, which the puppetmaster sees ans signs no
> problem.  But that signed cert just dosen't work for the client.
>
> /var/log/syslog on debian client.
>
>
> Mar 28 00:41:46  puppetd[25663]: Reopening log files
> Mar 28 00:41:46  puppetd[25663]: Creating a new certificate request
> for host
> Mar 28 00:41:46  puppetd[25663]: Creating a new SSL key at /etc/ 
> puppet/
> ssl/private_keys/host.pem
> Mar 28 00:41:46  puppetd[25663]: Did not receive certificate
>
> Mar 28 00:43:46  puppetd[25663]: Got signed certificate
> Mar 28 00:43:46  puppetd[25663]: Starting Puppet client version 0.24.7
> Mar 28 00:43:49  puppetd[25663]: Caching catalog at /var/lib/puppet/
> state/localconfig.yaml
> Mar 28 00:43:49  puppetd[25663]: Starting catalog run
> Mar 28 00:43:49  puppetd[25663]: Certificate validation failed;
> consider using the certname configuration option
>
> this puppet was installed by : apt-get install puppet/experimental
>
> how /etc/hosts has an entry
>
> puppet_master_ip      puppet
>
> however this is not the name that is in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf
>
> server=FQDN_of_puppet_master
>
> however my other centos clients have no problems with this.  Could
> this be a nsswith.conf issue?  Both debian and centos have
>
> host files dns
>
> I dont want to change the
>
> [puppetmasterd]
> certname
>
> as suggest in error message since that would break my other clients,
> as I understand it.
>
> Any assistance is appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> >
>

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