Indeed, I should have paid more attention t the actual error.
Thanks for the info.
Harm
On Sunday, October 13, 2013 9:18:37 PM UTC+2, Ramin K wrote:
>
> On 10/13/2013 1:47 AM, Harm De Weirdt wrote:
> > Hello everyone.
> >
> > I've been toying around with puppet and something happened that seems
> > strange to me.
> > In site.pp I have the following:
> >
> > node default {
> >
> > # This is where you can declare classes for all nodes.
> >
> > # Example:
> >
> > # class { 'my_class': }
> >
> > # class { 'lamp': }
> >
> > package {'php':
> >
> > ensure => present,
> >
> > before => File['/etc/php.ini'],
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> > file {'/etc/php.ini':
> >
> > ensure => file,
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> > package {'httpd':
> >
> > ensure => present,
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> > service {'httpd':
> >
> > ensure => running,
> >
> > enable => true,
> >
> > require => Package['httpd'],
> >
> > subscribe => File['/etc/php.ini'],
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> > package {'mysql-server':
> >
> > ensure => 'present',
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> > service {'mysqld':
> >
> > ensure => running,
> >
> > enable => true,
> >
> > require => Package['mysql-server'],
> >
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> > [I know about classes etc, this was just for easy testing. ]
> >
> > Now, if I change the httpd resource to
> >
> > package {'httpd':
> >
> > ensure => absent,
> >
> > }
> >
> > I get the following error:
> >
> > Error: Execution of '/bin/rpm -e httpd-2.2.3-82.el5.centos.i386'
> > returned 1: error: Failed dependencies:
> >
> > httpd-mmn = 20051115 is needed by (installed)
> > php-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386
> >
> >
> > Error: /Stage[main]//Node[default]/Package[httpd]/ensure: change
> > from 2.2.3-82.el5.centos to absent failed: Execution of
> > '/bin/rpm -e httpd-2.2.3-82.el5.centos.i386' returned 1: error:
> > Failed dependencies:
> >
> > httpd-mmn = 20051115 is needed by (installed)
> > php-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386
> >
> >
> > Notice: /Stage[main]//Node[default]/Service[httpd]: Dependency
> > Package[httpd] has failures: true
> >
> > Warning: /Stage[main]//Node[default]/Service[httpd]: Skipping
> > because of failed dependencies
> >
> > Notice: Finished catalog run in 15.00 seconds
> >
> >
> > This seems strange to me, because I never declared a require dependency
> > from php to httpd.
> > The only thing is that the httpd service subscribes to the php.ini
> > file. I could understand this error if the direction of this dependency
> > was the other way around, but not this way.
>
> It's important when troubleshooting Puppet to separate the Puppet
> error
> reported from the subsystem error that may have caused Puppet to report
> a failure. This seems to confuse more frequently that I would have
> thought.
>
> In the case above the Puppet error is: "Error:
> /Stage[main]//Node[default]/Package[httpd]/ensure: change from
> 2.2.3-82.el5.centos to absent failed" and the error Puppet is passing on
> comes from rpm is "Failed dependencies: httpd-mmn = 20051115 is needed
> by (installed) php-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386"
>
> Ramin
>
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