There is nothing to clean, as "puppet cert --list" or "puppet cert --list --all" does not have an entry for those 3 particular servers.
Deleting the client side ssl* makes no difference either. The client will recreate the ssl (good) and the same error pops up, without anything showing up on the master (puppet cert --list). And that is why I thought there is a communication problem. But here is the tcpdump output to show that they are talking: 09:01:57.812646 IP my_client.46516 > my_server.8140: Flags [S], seq 1288389639, win 14600, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 1052151283 ecr 0,nop,wscale 4], length 0 09:01:57.812700 IP my_server.8140 > my_client.46516: Flags [S.], seq 300735116, ack 1288389640, win 14480, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 38287565 ecr 1052151283,nop,wscale 4], length 0 09:01:57.814298 IP my_client.46516 > my_server.8140: Flags [.], ack 1, win 913, options [nop,nop,TS val 1052151283 ecr 38287565], length 0 09:01:57.814686 IP my_client.46516 > my_server.8140: Flags [P.], seq 1:175, ack 1, win 913, options [nop,nop,TS val 1052151283 ecr 38287565], length 174 09:01:57.814715 IP my_server.8140 > my_client.46516: Flags [.], ack 175, win 972, options [nop,nop,TS val 38287566 ecr 1052151283], length 0 09:01:57.815226 IP my_server.8140 > my_client.46516: Flags [P.], seq 1:8, ack 175, win 972, options [nop,nop,TS val 38287566 ecr 1052151283], length 7 09:01:57.815378 IP my_server.8140 > my_client.46516: Flags [F.], seq 8, ack 175, win 972, options [nop,nop,TS val 38287566 ecr 1052151283], length 0 09:01:57.816686 IP my_client.46516 > my_server.8140: Flags [.], ack 8, win 913, options [nop,nop,TS val 1052151284 ecr 38287566], length 0 09:01:57.816884 IP my_client.46516 > my_server.8140: Flags [F.], seq 175, ack 9, win 913, options [nop,nop,TS val 1052151284 ecr 38287566], length 0 09:01:57.816894 IP my_server.8140 > my_client.46516: Flags [.], ack 176, win 972, options [nop,nop,TS val 38287566 ecr 1052151284], length 0 As an additional note, when I stop apache and start puppetmaster with its inbuilt web server, then these 3 clients are happy. Martinus. On Friday, 6 July 2012 09:46:38 UTC+1, Martin Alfke wrote: > > On puppet master: > puppet cert --clean <fqdn> > > on client: > rm -fr /var/lib/puppet/ssl/* > puppet agent --test > > check on master for signing request: > puppet cert --list > > > On 06.07.2012, at 10:25, Martinus wrote: > > Martin, > > Right. > > Time is good (NTP) on all 3 clients and server. And I double checked just > now with ntpq -p (largest offset was -20). There are different time zones, > but then so has the working systems different time zones. > Ruby version on all 3 clients and server: ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 > patchlevel 352) > The SSLDir line looks like this: "ssldir = /var/lib/puppet/ssl" on all > systems (config file is copied across systems). I checked, and the > standard set of directories are there and owned by Puppet. > However, crl.pem is not present like on the working systems. > > Martinus. > > On Friday, 6 July 2012 09:07:46 UTC+1, Martin Alfke wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> - check time on client and server >> - check ruby version on the 3 server which fail >> - check SSLDir configuration in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf on the 3 systems. >> >> Martin >> >> On 06.07.2012, at 09:57, Martinus wrote: >> >> I have a problem on 3 out of ~40 servers that gives the following error: >> >> err: Could not request certificate: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 >> state=unknown state: sslv3 alert handshake failure >> >> From previous posts, I made sure that SSLVerifyClient is set to optional. >> I also cleared /var/lib/puppet/ssl/ client side, not that it should make >> any difference as this error is on the first run of Puppet. >> >> When I try to run Puppet from either of these 3 servers, there is nothing >> noted in /var/log/apache2/* server side. I have confirmed networking is ok >> with telnet and also checked that there is traffic with tcpdump. >> >> Puppet server is at 2.7.11 and client is also at 2.7.11 both from Ubuntu >> repositories. >> >> Any help would be appreciated to find why these 3 particular servers is >> giving me problems. >> >> -- >> 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/-/mzcj4gN-AWQJ. >> 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/ksgzsaL9g1MJ. > 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. 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