When you have hundreds of hosts and run Puppet every 30 mins (splayed across the hour), it seems that you end up running into various 'dpkg' locks fairly randomly and at a surprisingly high occurrence (once or twice a day at least). This happens if you do something simple like a cron-based 'apt-get update' or 'apt-get autoclean'. It happens even more often, oddly, when you tell Puppet to always install Package-Foo, and you manually run jobs across the farms occasionally to upgrade Package-Foo.
Is there any way to tell Puppet to wait and then re-try when theres a dpkg lock in place, rather than outright failing? Overall its just a nuisance, but we must get 3-5 of these reports a day.. Matt Wise Sr. Systems Architect Nextdoor.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAOHkZxPzcLmUEa03KPpJosZgEftr2CZcmk9QksW0P4Dd7XDZiw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
