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Joachim_42he
Joachim_42he

Reputation: 75

Puppet 6.1.0: node.rb missing from installed files?

For testing, I have installed two instances of Ubuntu server 18.04 on VirtualBox. I then installed one with Puppet-server 6.1.0 and one with Puppet-agent 6.1.0, as per the documentation at Puppetlabs for version 6.1. Foreman is not installed.

After registering my agent at the puppetserver and signing the certificate, starting a puppet-run (sudo /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet agent --test) fails with the following error:

Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on SERVER: Server Error: Failed when searching for node puppetagent.fritz.box: Exception while executing '/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/node.rb': Cannot run program "/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/node.rb" (in directory "."): error=2, No such file or directory

I was dumbstruck to find that the script /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/node.rb was indeed missing and was also not included in the packages of puppetserver, puppet-agent or facter (sudo dpkg-query -L ...).

Googling for it, I only found a script of the same name that belonged to Foreman.

The file does also not seem to be present in the puppetserver source-code at github.

Is anyone able to shed some light on this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1292

Answers (2)

binford2k
binford2k

Reputation: 46

Tagging on to John's answer, your configuration is probably configured to talk to the Foreman. If you didn't write it yourself or copy it from somewhere and you're sure you don't have any Foreman packages installed, then it's definitely a packaging error that you should report.

That said, puppet repos are almost always the right answer rather than distro packages.

Upvotes: 0

John Bollinger
John Bollinger

Reputation: 181932

Your server configuration seems to be set up to specify use of an external node classifier. This is optional: Puppet does not require an ENC and does not provide one by default. That's part of what makes them "external". If you obtained the result you describe straight out of the box then it probably reflects a packaging flaw that you should report.

In the meantime, you should be able to update the configuration to disable use of an ENC by changing the value of the node_terminus setting to plain. Alternatively, you should be able to just delete both node_terminus and external_nodes from your configuration, because the default for the former is plain.

Upvotes: 1

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