Hi, I have no idea how I can help, tell me what to do and I would be glad to help.
Regards, Jeremy MAURO On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Chris Price <ch...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > Because the serialization format (JSON) and the database both require > UTF-8 character encoding for their data, puppetdb needs to encode strings > before it sends them from the puppet master to the puppetdb server. Due to > limitations in Puppet's representation of strings (character encoding is > not explicitly specified), it's not possible for us to do anything too > fancy when we encounter a byte sequence that is not directly representable > in UTF-8. Thus, when this scenario occurs, you will see the warning that > you mentioned. This does mean that we will be discarding the invalid bytes. > > Whether or not this is cause for concern in your particular case depends > on which resource triggered the warning, and what your use case for that > resource is. If the offending resource is an exported resource that other > nodes are relying on, then this could cause problems. If the offending > resource is one that you query or report on, then your data could be skewed > slightly. Otherwise, this is effectively harmless for you. > > One thing that we should do on our end, though, is try to provide a bit > more context to the warning message to help you try to identify which > resource is causing the warning. To that end I've filed the following > ticket: > > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/15016 > > (Also worth noting: in the existing/old storeconfigs, the behavior for > handling this scenario is undefined... so for us, this warning is a first > step towards providing comprehensive, robust support for handling string > encoding.) > > We are definitely interested in hearing more details about your setup if > this does cause you any problems. > > Thanks for the feedback! > Chris > > On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 6:06:38 AM UTC-7, jcbollinger wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 5:51:22 AM UTC-5, A_SAAS wrote: >>> >>> Me again regarding puppetdb, I have the following warning message: >>> "Jun 13 12:49:15 puppetmaster puppet-master[28444]: Ignoring invalid >>> UTF-8 byte sequences in data to be sent to PuppetDB" >>> >>> Do I have to worry? >>> >> >> I don't know any relevant specifics about PuppetDB, but on general >> principles I would say that to the extent you rely on the data curated by >> PuppetDB to be correct, yes, you should worry. The message suggests data >> stream corruption between PuppetDB and whatever other part of the master is >> talking to it at that point. Probably they disagree about what character >> encoding to use, but whatever the cause of the problem, the message >> suggests that PuppetDB interpreted the data in question differently than >> its source intended. There is a bug of some kind in there, so I would file >> a ticket. >> >> >> John >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/PZtYDMbV1XQJ. > > 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. > -- 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.
