I have installed stock puppet (3.7.2) on Debian 8 and my puppet is refusing to run as a service when I try to invoke it. I can see that puppet.service start operation is timing out on a cronjob which restarts my puppet every day at a fixed time. Some amount of searching got me to [1] however the solution on that did not help me either.
[1] https://stelfox.net/blog/2014/01/starting-puppetmaster-on-fedora-19/ *root@myServer:~# dpkg -l | grep puppet* ii puppet 3.7.2-4 all configuration management system, agent ii puppet-common 3.7.2-4 all configuration management system *root@myServer:~# lsb_release -a* No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.4 (jessie) Release: 8.4 Codename: jessie *root@myServer:~# /etc/init.d/puppet status* ● puppet.service - Puppet agent Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/puppet.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Mon 2016-04-25 07:02:45 EDT; 3h 55min ago Process: 33758 ExecStart=/usr/bin/puppet agent $DAEMON_OPTS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 977 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Apr 25 05:01:27 myServer puppet-agent[33771]: (/Stage[main]/process/File[/file/file1/data0818]/group) group changed 'root' to 'data' Apr 25 05:01:27 myServer puppet-agent[33771]: (/Stage[main]/process/File[/file/file1/data0818]/mode) mode changed '0644' to '0640' Apr 25 05:01:27 myServer puppet-agent[33771]: (/Stage[main]/process/File[/file/file1/data0811]/group) group changed 'root' to 'data' Apr 25 05:01:27 myServer puppet-agent[33771]: (/Stage[main]/process/File[/file/file1/data0811]/mode) mode changed '0644' to '0640' Apr 25 05:01:27 myServer puppet-agent[33771]: (/Stage[main]/Naigos/Exec[linux-headers-uname-r]/returns) executed successfully Apr 25 05:02:32 myServer systemd[1]: puppet.service start operation timed out. Terminating. Apr 25 05:02:32 myServer puppet-agent[33771]: Caught TERM; calling stop Apr 25 05:02:32 myServer puppet-agent[33767]: Caught TERM; calling stop Apr 25 05:02:45 myServer systemd[1]: Failed to start Puppet agent. Apr 25 05:02:45 myServer systemd[1]: Unit puppet.service entered failed state. *root@myServer:~# ps aux | grep puppet* root 16276 0.0 0.0 12728 2208 pts/2 S+ 09:07 0:00 grep puppet *root@myServer:~# /etc/init.d/puppet start* [....] Starting puppet (via systemctl): puppet.serviceJob for puppet.service failed. See 'systemctl status puppet.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details. failed! *root@myServer:~# ps aux | grep puppet* root 17331 0.0 0.0 12728 2208 pts/2 S+ 09:13 0:00 grep puppet *root@myServer:~# ls -ltrhd /run/puppet* drwxr-xr-x 2 puppet puppet 40 Apr 8 05:01 /run/puppet *root@myServer:~# ls -ltrhd /var/run/puppet/* drwxr-xr-x 2 puppet puppet 4.0K Apr 25 09:28 /var/run/puppet/ root@myServer:~# -- Regards, Balasubramaniam Natarajan http://bullet-bala.blogspot.in/ <http://blog.etutorshop.com> https://www.youracclaim.com/user/balasubramaniam-natarajan -- 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/CAFHFDA%3DKrOZZLYa0gsyXBT39rBo_9Hfkf-dv3gPrHy0ZT%2BQ15w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
