Spot on - chown puppet.puppet /var/lib/puppet/state solved the problem. I assume this is a defect in the packaging - I have just repeated this by installing the same package on an empty VM.
Thanks Chris On Oct 25, 2:49 pm, Raymundo Vasquez <rvasq...@b-phot.org> wrote: > Its actually the owner of /var/lib/puppet/state/clientconfigs.sqlite3 the > one giving problems. Have you triend to change this using chown as root? > This is mine > > #ls -la /var/lib/puppet/state/ > total 8 > drwxr-xr-t 2 puppet puppet 4096 Sep 23 22:12 . > > Regards > > 2011/10/25 Chris <ch...@cdpuk.net> > > > > > > > > > > > Exactly the same symptoms when running directly as root. > > > puppet.conf with comments stripped for readability: > > > [main] > > logdir = /var/log/puppet > > rundir = /var/run/puppet > > ssldir = $vardir/ssl > > > [agent] > > classfile = $vardir/classes.txt > > localconfig = $vardir/localconfig > > > [master] > > modulepath = /etc/puppet/modules > > storeconfigs = true > > > I have the following installed on CentOS 5: > > > [root@host ~]# rpm -qa |grep sqlite > > sqlite-3.3.6-5 > > python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1 > > rubygem-sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4-1.el5 > > > I assume these are sufficient? > > > Thanks. > > > On Oct 19, 10:51 pm, Kevin Wolf <kwol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I agree; try as root. > > > > Also, what does your puppet.conf look like on the puppet master? > > > > Kevin. > > > > On Oct 18, 6:07 am, Chris <ch...@cdpuk.net> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I'm getting the following error when I try to set up stored > > > > configurations. It appears in the master logs when the agent process > > > > runs. > > > > > $ sudo /usr/sbin/puppetmasterd --no-daemonize --verbose > > > > ... > > > > info: Connecting to sqlite3 database: /var/lib/puppet/state/ > > > > clientconfigs.sqlite3 > > > > err: could not open database: unable to open database file > > > > > The file is never created by puppet. If I manually create this file, I > > > > get more errors: > > > > > err: /File[/var/lib/puppet/state/clientconfigs.sqlite3]/owner: change > > > > from root to puppet failed: Failed to set owner to '701': Operation > > > > not permitted - /var/lib/puppet/state/clientconfigs.sqlite3 > > > > ... > > > > > If it helps, my gem list: > > > > > $ gem list > > > > *** LOCAL GEMS *** > > > > actionmailer (2.3.4) > > > > actionpack (2.3.4) > > > > activerecord (2.3.4) > > > > activeresource (2.3.4) > > > > activesupport (2.3.4) > > > > rack (1.0.0) > > > > rails (2.3.4) > > > > rake (0.8.7) > > > > sqlite3-ruby (1.2.4) > > > > > Any help much appreciated on this - there doesn't seem to be much out > > > > there on Google. > > > > > -Chris > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Puppet Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- > Raymundo Vásquez Ruiz > rvasq...@b-phot.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
