[Puppet Users] Facter via cron hanging on RHEL5

Hello,

We run facter via cron on all hosts regularly for mcollective filtering
this is now hanging on 2.x.x (2.1, and 2.2 tried).

Facter run on various RHEL5 systems (both physical and virtual) hangs when
executed via cron.

Crontab Entry:-
$ cat /etc/cron.d/mcollective-yaml-update
10 * * * * root /usr/bin/facter -p --yaml >/etc/mcollective/facts.yaml.tmp
&& /bin/mv /etc/mcollective/facts.yaml.tmp /etc/mcollective/facts.yaml

Process Table:-
$ ps -ef | grep fac
root 25137 25131 0 09:10 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/facter
-p --yaml >/etc/mcollective/facts.yaml.tmp && /bin/mv
/etc/mcollective/facts.yaml.tmp /etc/mcollective/facts.yaml
root 25138 25137 0 09:10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/ruby
/usr/bin/facter -p –yaml

lsof output:-
$ lsof | grep facter
facter 29899 root cwd DIR 253,0 4096
130433 /root
facter 29899 root rtd DIR 253,0 4096
  2 /
facter 29899 root txt REG 253,0 5056
  1349275 /usr/bin/ruby
… various misc libs …
facter 29899 root mem REG 253,0 12072
  1506765 /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/digest.so
facter 29899 root mem REG 253,0 5000
  1506768 /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/fcntl.so
facter 29899 root mem REG 253,0 263072
  1506772 /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/nkf.so
facter 29899 root mem REG 253,0 18192
  1506785 /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/strscan.so
facter 29899 root mem REG 253,0 111480
326115 /lib64/libnsl-2.5.so
facter 29899 root mem REG 253,0 53880
326141 /lib64/libnss_files-2.5.so
facter 29899 root mem REG 253,0 12440
  1506790 /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/syslog.so
facter 29899 root mem REG 253,0 45440
  1506779 /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/socket.so
facter 29899 root mem REG 253,0 15048
  1506775 /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/racc/cparse.so
facter 29899 root mem REG 253,0 20736
  1601142 /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/json/ext/parser.so
facter 29899 root mem REG 253,0 28152
  1601141 /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/json/ext/generator.so
facter 29899 root mem REG 253,0 5160
  1598087 /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/digest/sha1.so
facter 29899 root mem REG 253,0 5160
  1598085 /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/digest/md5.so
facter 29899 root mem REG 253,0 25464
  1352515 /usr/lib64/gconv/gconv-modules.cache
facter 29899 root mem REG 253,0 217016
  1504010 /var/db/nscd/hosts
facter 29899 root 0r FIFO 0,6 0t0
  850778561 pipe
facter 29899 root 1w REG 253,0 0
  2609309 /etc/mcollective/facts.yaml.tmp
facter 29899 root 2w FIFO 0,6 0t0
  850778562 pipe
facter 29899 root 3r REG 253,0 139
  2186506 /etc/sysconfig/appdynamics
facter 29899 root 4r FIFO 0,6 0t0
  850779144 pipe
facter 29899 root 5r REG 0,0 4096
5829 /sys/block/hdc/size

Ruby Version
$ rpm -q --qf '%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n' ruby
1.8.7.370-1.el5

This didn’t happen with 1.6.x which was our previous version.And I cannot
find a RHEL6 host with this issue. So I suspect Ruby here. Any ideas anyone
?

Thanks
Paul