> I have installed Puppet on a Raspberry pi (running Raspbian) and it seems to > work (sort of). I managed to add it to a Puppetmaster and sign its > certificate but a puppet run fails: > > Info: Retrieving pluginfacts > Info: Retrieving plugin > Info: Loading facts > Error: Could not retrieve local facts: can't convert nil into String > Error: Failed to apply catalog: Could not retrieve local facts: can't > convert nil into String > > It doesn’t show the facts that generates the error (even with the debug > option supplied). > > So I executed facter on the command line (with the -p option) and got the > following error: > > # facter -d -p > Found no suitable resolves of 1 for ec2_metadata > value for ec2_metadata is still nil > Found no suitable resolves of 1 for lsbdistid > value for lsbdistid is still nil > can't convert nil into String > > Which made me think the lsbdistid fact was causing the problem but when I > ran it separately it didn’t generate the error. > > facter -d -p lsbdistid > Found no suitable resolves of 1 for lsbdistid > value for lsbdistid is still nil > > Is there any (simple) way to find out which fact is generating the error? > > FYI, the following package/versions are used: > > ii facter 2.3.0-1puppetlabs1 > all Ruby module for collecting simple facts about a host operating > system > ii hiera 1.3.4-1puppetlabs1 > all A simple pluggable Hierarchical Database. > ii puppet 3.7.3-1puppetlabs1 > all Centralized configuration management - agent startup and > compatibility scripts > ii puppet-common 3.7.3-1puppetlabs1 > all Centralized configuration management > ii puppetlabs-release 1.0-11 > all "Package to install Puppet Labs gpg key and apt repo"
Its been a while since I've hacked on facter so excuse my ignorance, but does adding --trace surface the full stack trace from that exception? ken. -- 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAE4bNTn1iavQ1mEAPxGSkAEnMnRoUbZ-NDEDo7wbnS7qHY5uKw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
