FYI: I ran into this exact same issue today. I upgraded before
seeing/finding this thread. So it seems puppet for RHEL4 from EPEL is
currently broke until they update Facter.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Daniel Dekok <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Building a rpm of the facter 1.5.5rc1, using the EPEL 1.5.4 spec file
> with a small mod or two (removing the permissions and not installing
> the non existance COPYING file) and installing it fixes the problem in
> my test environment as well, am going to fan it out today and confirm
> its all good.
>
> for the sake of completeness, running it in no deamonize mode doesn't
> change anything, after startup it just sits there.
>
> On Apr 22, 7:38 am, Avi Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 21/04/2009, at 11:39 PM, Daniel Dekok wrote:
>>
>> > Last week we upgraded a bunch of our machines to 0.24.8, using the
>> > 1.el4.1 rpm from epel/redhat, and ever since then, it looks like
>> > they're no longer doing any runs on the half hour.
>>
>> I think you are hitting the same Facter bug that I did with EL4.
>> Essentially, Facter hangs trying to read /proc/uptime and /proc/
>> virtual (on my XenU guests). You should try the new Facter 1.5.5 RC1
>> which has the fixes for these to see if that resolves the problem.
>>
>> I actually had to manually fix all my servers because Puppet had
>> stopped working. Also, when upgrading Facter, make sure you restart
>> Puppet (if you're running a daemon), otherwise you can also run into
>> problems I've discovered.
>>
>> cYa,
>> Avi
> >
>

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