[Puppet Users] LaunchDaemon on Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks

On 14/03/2014 13:21, "Merlin Hartley" wrote:

We have been successfully using Puppet v2 for a few years now managing
Mac OSX machines, with a LaunchDaemon file (com.reductivelabs.puppet
http://1drv.ms/1kqcNW0)
This needed to be changed when Puppet v3 came along and so we merely
changed the 'Label' - which worked fine with v3.3 on OSX 10.8.5...

For Mavericks (OSX 10.9) we need to use Puppet 3.4.3 (with Facter 1.7.5)
and this LaunchDaemon file does not work - so following information
gained from this forum, and the

launchd manpage
<https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Ma
nPages/man5/launchd.plist.5.html>, I changed the RubyLib Path to where it
now gets installed and modified a few other keys: (com.puppetlabs.puppet
http://1drv.ms/1kqdzSU)

Unfortunately this still does not work.

I can manually run puppet on Mavericks from the commandline using 'sudo
puppet agent --test' and it functions perfectly. But the LaunchDaemon
just refuses to work; it gives the following error:

Error: Could not create resources for managing Puppet's files and
directories in sections [:main, :agent, :ssl]: undefined method `each'
for nil:NilClass
Error: Could not prepare for execution: Could not create resources for
managing Puppet's files and directories in sections [:main, :agent,
:ssl]: undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass
undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass

The only reference I can find to this kind of error was apparently fixed
in 3.0.2 (password hashing problem?)...

Has anyone got a LaunchDaemon working on Mavericks? Any pointers for what
I might need to do to make it work?

Many thanks!

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On Friday, March 14, 2014 8:34:57 AM UTC-7, Merlin Hartley wrote:

Thanks Joe, but your plist gives me exactly the same error...

I am testing this on a brand new from the box iMac with Mavericks with the
latest Puppet/Hiera/Facter packages downloaded from
https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/mac/

Incidentally /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby is actually a symbolic link to
/Library/Ruby/Site anyway (though I hadn't previously tried with 2.0.0) :
$ ls -al /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 44 31 Oct 21:26 /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby ->
../../../../../../../../../Library/Ruby/Site

This feels like we just eliminated the LaunchDaemon as the culprit... do
you make any other changes to file permissions or anything other that just
installing those packages?

Thanks again!

On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 6:36:56 PM UTC-7, Khoury wrote:

I'm seeing the same behavior with the plist on 10.9.2: Puppet runs fine
using the CLI but doesn't work as a LaunchDaemon. Did you manage to work
out why this happens?

On 19 Mar 2014, at 07:35, Khoury wrote:

I found a workaround. When I ran puppet in root's shell it had the same error. Since it worked in my shell but not root's I figured it was an environment issue at that point and added all of the environment variables from my user shell to the root shell and started removing them individually until I narrowed it down to the environment variable LANG. When I set the environment variable LANG to en_US.UTF-8 in my plist and it started working again. It goes in the EnvironmentVariables dict and looks like this:

<key>LANG</key>
<string>en_US.UTF-8</string>

I'm not entirely sure why that works yet though (bug?).

On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 6:36:56 PM UTC-7, Khoury wrote:
I'm seeing the same behavior with the plist on 10.9.2: Puppet runs fine using the CLI but doesn't work as a LaunchDaemon. Did you manage to work out why this happens?

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perfect!
Thanks Khoury!

Here is my functional version:
http://pastebin.com/Vdb9vFvB

Out of interest, I tried "en_GB.UTF-8" (which is what my Environment
contains) but that didn't work...

The above file works fine though


Merlin


On 19 Mar 2014, at 07:35, Khoury wrote:

I found a workaround. When I ran puppet in root's shell it had the same
error. Since it worked in my shell but not root's I figured it was an
environment issue at that point and added all of the environment variables
from my user shell to the root shell and started removing them individually
until I narrowed it down to the environment variable LANG. When I set the
environment variable LANG to en_US.UTF-8 in my plist and it started working
again. It goes in the EnvironmentVariables dict and looks like this:

<key>LANG</key>
<string>en_US.UTF-8</string>

I'm not entirely sure why that works yet though (bug?).