vgutierrez@cp1008:~$ sudo -i puppet agent -t terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | jbond | T184561 Modernize Puppet Configuration Management (2017-18 Q3 Goal) | |||
| Resolved | jbond | T184564 Plan Puppet 5 upgrade | |||
| Resolved | jbond | T219803 upgrade facter and puppet across the fleet | |||
| Declined | jbond | T221343 puppet fails to run in cp1008 under certain conditions |
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so... this is caused by my locales:
vgutierrez@cp1008:~$ unset LC_CTYPE vgutierrez@cp1008:~$ sudo -i puppet agent -t Warning: Support for ruby version 2.1.5 is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. See https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/system_requirements.html for a list of supported ruby versions. (location: /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet.rb:130:in `<module:Puppet>') Warning: Downgrading to PSON for future requests Info: Using configured environment 'production' Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
but this was working as expected before
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For completeness/context: Previously cp1008 was using facter 2.4.6, but it's now running 3.11.0 as part of the canary hosts which were migrated to v3.
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I had a quick look at this and was unable to recreate it, i did come across the following though and wonder if the work around there may work
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1745045/stdlocale-breakage-on-macos-10-6-with-lang-en-us-utf-8
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I have noticed you can tirgger this bug by using a locale not present on the server
for loc in $(locale -a) en_GB.utf8 ; do echo ${loc}; sudo env LC_ALL=${loc} puppet help agent > /dev/null ; done
C
Warning: Support for ruby version 2.1.5 is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. See https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/system_requirements.html for a list of supported ruby versions.
(location: /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet.rb:130:in `<module:Puppet>')
C.UTF-8
Warning: Support for ruby version 2.1.5 is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. See https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/system_requirements.html for a list of supported ruby versions.
(location: /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet.rb:130:in `<module:Puppet>')
en_US.utf8
Warning: Support for ruby version 2.1.5 is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. See https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/system_requirements.html for a list of supported ruby versions.
(location: /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet.rb:130:in `<module:Puppet>')
POSIX
Warning: Support for ruby version 2.1.5 is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. See https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/system_requirements.html for a list of supported ruby versions.
(location: /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet.rb:130:in `<module:Puppet>')
en_GB.utf8
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid