[FACT-1936] facter -p segfaults with facts that call open-uri.open - Puppet Tickets

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Ruby versions starting with 2.5 have changed how the Windows sockets are started, requiring a call to an additional function for starting them.

Not having this call causes segmentation faults when querying custom facts that use Windows Sockets with Ruby versions 2.5 and higher (i.e. custom facts that make HTTP requests).

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Ruby versions starting with 2.5 have changed how the Windows sockets are started, requiring a call to an additional function for starting them. Not having this call causes segmentation faults when querying custom facts that use Windows Sockets with Ruby versions 2.5 and higher (i.e. custom facts that make HTTP requests).

Puppet Version: 6.0.9
Facter Version: 3.12.4 (commit ce9452fd2d15ed91eed9b8cc7823af783c9275a8)
OS Name/Version: Windows 2012

This custom fact succeeds on Linux but segfaults on Windows ... but only when calling facter -p not with puppet facts or puppet agent -t

require 'open-uri'

require 'json'

require 'timeout'

Facter.add('test') do

  response = nil

  begin

    url = 'https://api.ipify.org?format=json'

    Timeout::timeout(4) do

      response = open(url).read

end

  rescue

nil

end

  if !response.to_s.empty?

    result = JSON.parse(response)

    setcode do

      result['ip']

end

end

end

(Same segfault occurs if you use Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse('https://api.ipify.org?format=json')) instead of open(url).read)

Result attached.

is caused by

LTH-163 Call ruby_sysinit to initialize Windows sockets