thanks Brice, that's a very good point and I am going to investigate it. the master is running as a virtual machine with limited resources so this can be really the issue.
thanks, Antony. ________________________________ From: Brice Figureau <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 24 June, 2010 18:58:05 Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] puppet random errors On 24/06/10 14:51, Antony Mayi wrote: > [snip] > In about 10% of all runs Puppet randomly fails on some (random) File > resource either with this error: > > Thu Jun 24 02:40:03 +0000 2010 //<random module>/File[<random file>] > (err): Failed to generate additional resources using 'eval_generate': > > or this error: > > Wed Jun 23 18:56:33 +0000 2010 //<random module>/File[<random file>] > (err): Failed to retrieve current state of resource: Could not > retrieve file metadata for puppet:///modules/<random module>/<random > file>: at /etc/puppet/manifests/<random manifest>.pp:<line> > > [snip[ > > does have anyone any clue? this is very annoying as the mail reports > can't be taken seriously. How is your puppetmaster running? How many clients do you have? I think these errors come from the fact that the master is overloaded and doesn't answer to the file resource request in a timely way, so a timeout triggers. Usual advice: if you run with webrick, use something that is more scalable (including passenger or nginx+mongrel). -- Brice Figureau My Blog: http://www.masterzen.fr/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
