On Oct 21, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Patrick <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 21, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Patrick <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Oct 21, 2010, at 8:48 AM, Ed Greenberg wrote:
>> 
>>> OK, so I upgraded the puppetmaster server to lucid, which got me the 
>>> puppetmaster 0.25.4.
>>> 
>>> I am still having issues signing up a new lucid client, and I've foudn this 
>>> in the client's log:
>>> Oct 21 15:32:53 edglucid1 puppetd[27061]: Could not request certificate: 
>>> undefin
>>> ed method `closed?' for nil:NilClass
>>> 
>>> Not being initiated in the ways of Ruby, I'm not very well equipped to 
>>> debug this :)
>>> 
>>> Any suggestions?
>> 
>> The "undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass" error is a known and very 
>> confusing bug in 0.25.x, that is fixed in 0.25.5.  It replaces most error 
>> messages with this "nil:NilClass" error.  Upgrade to fix it, if you want to 
>> see the real error.
>> 
>> Bug report: (Most of the information isn't applicable till you get near the 
>> end)
>> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3101
>> 
>> If you can't upgrade the whole package, you can find the fix at 
>> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/repository/revisions/ae0b0bf23e418e8c6665e9dc135148b78bdbd913
>>  and manually use it.  In this case, "use" means:
>> 1) Get the diff
>> 2) Find that file on your client
>> 3) Manually change that file
>> 
>> Someone really needs to make an FAQ entry and try to get that patch into 
>> Debian and Lucid (Ubuntu).
>> 
>> If someone bug reports that to us on Debian, we can get a patch in for that 
>> version.
> 
> Are you talking about cherry picking that patch or switching from 0.25.4 to 
> 0.25.5?  Either works, but I'll defer to you for which I should file.
> 
> At this stage cherry-picking would be best.
> 
> Bug reporting for Debian and Ubuntu is pretty simple to remember with:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/puppet
> http://bugs.ubuntu.com/puppet
> 

I can't figure out how you file a bug against lenny-backports.  That's the only 
notable version of Debian that's affected now.  Stable, Testing, and Unstable 
are all either too old or too new.

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