Hello We are in progress of moving from Puppet 4 to 5/6 and we currently have a lab installation of both versions to toy around with.
Our agents are still on version 4 and for them everything works as expected without any issues no matter if they connect to the version 4, 5 or 6 puppetserver. However if we use a version 5 or 6 agent to connect to those version 5 or 6 servers we get a really strange error: Error: /File[/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/cache/lib]: Failed to generate additional resources using 'eval_generate': Could not intern_multiple from application/json: Invalid parameter ftype to object class Puppet::FileServing::Metadata We found out that if we force the client to use PSON with "--preferred_serialization_format pson" the problem goes away. This is also why the problem only occurs on agents > 5 as they are now using json as default. This also only affects the plugin endpoints where it syncs facts.d, lib and locals at the very start of the run. The catalog itself can be retrieved without issue with json. So I tried to track this down a bit further. The issue seems to originate from a part of code where Puppet tries to add values from a received json hash to an object: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/41760e1646ffd91942ebc2290b5108ce31fe529d/lib/puppet/util/methodhelper.rb#L16 The data I get with PSON here is: [{ "path":"/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/test/modules", "relative_path":".", "links":"follow", "owner":0, "group":10080, "mode":1517, "checksum":{ "type":"ctime", "value":"{ctime}2019-02-11 11:02:06 +0100" }, "type":"directory", "destination":null }] With JSON the Puppetserver returns: [{ "checksum_type":"ctime", "links":"follow", "destination":null, "source":null, "group":10080, "ftype":"directory", "relative_path":".", "expiration":"2019-02-11T14:39:20.972+01:00", "checksum":"{ctime}2019-02-11 11:02:06 +0100", "stat_method":"stat", "owner":0, "mode":1517, "content_uri":null, "source_permissions":"use", "path":"/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/test/modules" }] It then tries to call ftype=(value) on an object of Puppet::FileServing::Metadata (as the error message says) but that attribute only has an attribute reader: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/41760e1646ffd91942ebc2290b5108ce31fe529d/lib/puppet/file_serving/metadata.rb#L16 Clearly something very strange is going on here. This can't be the real issue as it obviously works for other people. Maybe someone on this list has any idea how to track this down further or has encountered a similar issue. Regards Andreas -- 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/abb5bf56-581b-45a4-2067-d12f5275dd40%40puzzle.ch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
