On Dec 9, 2010, at 9:14 AM, luke.bigum wrote:
> Interesting, I've noticed that puppet runs triggered from a daemonised
> puppetd aren't affected by the problem (as Dashboard and /var/log/
> messages says their is no errors), but when run from the command line
> as puppetd --test it fails as usual for me:
>
> err: /Stage[main]/Fh_freetds/Exec[change /etc/freetds.conf version]:
> Could not evaluate: 'grep' is not executable
>
> Can't spot any difference in the environments so far.
Here's something to try, can you reproduce this problem using the local
"puppet" program that directly evaluates the manifest. Not the client
"puppetd". If so, that's a lot less code you've narrowed to down to.
> On Dec 9, 4:42 pm, "luke.bigum" <luke.bi...@fasthosts.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi Rudy,
>>
>> I'm not sure if you fixed this yet, but I ran into the same problem
>> using grep in an unless parameter of an exec resource.
>>
>> I went looking through the Ruby code, in /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/
>> puppet/type/exec.rb on line 571. I changed these four lines:
>>
>> unless FileTest.executable?(exe)
>> raise ArgumentError,
>> "'#{exe}' is not executable"
>> end
>>
>> To just a single line like the one above:
>>
>> raise ArgumentError, "'#{exe}' is not executable" unless
>> FileTest.executable?(exe)
>>
>> And then Puppet stopped complaining. I thought this doesn't make any
>> sense at all, so I changed it back... Puppet still worked. I removed
>> and reinstalled the RPM, Puppet is back to complaining about grep not
>> being executable. I then just touched exec.rb and the problem is
>> magically fixed again.
>>
>> I don't know very much about Ruby, so I'm just going to back away
>> very, very slowly, arms raised in the air to ward off evil ;)
>>
>> But seriously, is there a Ruby guru who might know what's going on
>> here? I can even reproduce the issue by uninstalling and reinstalling
>> the puppet RPM - not sure how long it's going to stay broken though,
>> we'll see.
>>
>> -Luke
>>
>> On Dec 2, 10:30 am, Rudy Gevaert <rudy.geva...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>
>>> I'm seeing a strange thing here. I only have this on one machine! 3
>>> others that are 'identical' don't have that issue...
>>
>>> err: /Stage[main]/Vim/Exec[update-alternatives --set editor /usr/bin/
>>> vim.basic]: Could not evaluate: 'test' is not executable
>>
>>> class vim{
>>
>>> $vim_package= "vim"
>>
>>> package {
>>> $vim_package:
>>> ensure => installed,
>>> provider => $operatingsystem ? {
>>> "Solaris" => 'pkgutil',
>>> default => undef
>>> }
>>> }
>>
>>> case $operatingsystem{
>>> "Debian": {
>>> exec { "update-alternatives --set editor /usr/bin/vim.basic":
>>> path => "/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin",
>>> unless => "test /etc/alternatives/editor -ef /usr/bin/
>>> vim.basic"
>>> }
>>> }
>>> }
>>
>>> }
>>
>>> Manual output:
>>
>>> r...@cyrprd1:~# puppet agent --test
>>> info: Retrieving plugin
>>> info: Loading facts in ugentinfo
>>> info: Loading facts in configured_ntp_servers
>>> info: Loading facts in ugentinfo
>>> info: Loading facts in configured_ntp_servers
>>> info: Caching catalog for cyrprd1.ugent.be
>>> info: Applying configuration version '1291285388'
>>> notice: /Stage[main]/Debian_os/Exec[apt-get-update]/returns: executed
>>> successfully
>>> notice: /Stage[main]/Mailstore/Package[cyrus-ugent]/ensure: ensure
>>> changed '0.1-33' to '0.1-34'
>>> err: /Stage[main]/Vim/Exec[update-alternatives --set editor /usr/bin/
>>> vim.basic]: Could not evaluate: 'test' is not executable
>>> notice: Finished catalog run in 7.66 seconds
>>
>>> r...@cyrprd1:~# test /etc/alternatives/editor -ef /usr/bin/vim.basic
>>> r...@cyrprd1:~# which test
>>> /usr/bin/test
>>> r...@cyrprd1:~# ls -l /usr/bin/test
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30136 Apr 28 2010 /usr/bin/test
>>> r...@cyrprd1:~#
>>
>>
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