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  1. Facter
  2. FACT-3170

Facter resolves facts multiple times when providers are confined based on facts, especially on Windows

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    • Bug Fix
    • Facter 4 previously was not looking to use any cache information when looking up a fact or value Facter methods. We have resolved that to now use cache information when using the fact or value methods.
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    Description

      Run Puppet with --debug and the same block is repeated. This seems to have been partially resolved in FACT-3001. However, on the latest release similar logs continue to repeat on Windows nodes

      Debug: Facter: Loading external facts
      		 
      Debug: Facter: fact "operatingsystem" has resolved to: windows
      		 
      Debug: Facter: resolving fact with user_query: operatingsystem
      		 
      Debug: Facter: Searching fact: operatingsystem in file: operatingsystem.rb
      		 
      Debug: Facter: Searching fact: operatingsystem in core facts and external facts
      		 
      Debug: Facter: Loading all internal facts
      		 
      Debug: Facter: List of resolvable facts: [#<Facter::SearchedFact:0x0000000009db77a8 @name="operatingsystem", @fact_class=Facts::Windows::Os::Name, @user_query="operatingsystem", @type=:legacy, @file=nil>]
      		 
      Debug: Facter: Loading external facts
      		 
      Debug: Facter: fact "operatingsystem" has resolved to: windows
      		 
      Debug: Facter: resolving fact with user_query: operatingsystem
      		 
      Debug: Facter: Searching fact: operatingsystem in file: operatingsystem.rb
      		 
      Debug: Facter: Searching fact: operatingsystem in core facts and external facts
      		 
      Debug: Facter: Loading all internal facts
      		 
      Debug: Facter: List of resolvable facts: [#<Facter::SearchedFact:0x0000000009dd7080 @name="operatingsystem", @fact_class=Facts::Windows::Os::Name, @user_query="operatingsystem", @type=:legacy, @file=nil>]
      		 
      Debug: Facter: Loading external facts
      		 
      Debug: Facter: fact "operatingsystem" has resolved to: windows
      		 
      Debug: Facter: resolving fact with user_query: operatingsystem
      		 
      Debug: Facter: Searching fact: operatingsystem in file: operatingsystem.rb
      		 
      Debug: Facter: Searching fact: operatingsystem in core facts and external facts
      		 
      Debug: Facter: Loading all internal facts
      		 
      Debug: Facter: List of resolvable facts: [#<Facter::SearchedFact:0x0000000008a92e98 @name="operatingsystem", @fact_class=Facts::Windows::Os::Name, @user_query="operatingsystem", @type=:legacy, @file=nil>]
      		 
      Debug: Facter: Loading external facts
      		 
      Debug: Facter: fact "operatingsystem" has resolved to: windows
      		 
      Debug: Facter: resolving fact with user_query: operatingsystem
      		 
      Debug: Facter: Searching fact: operatingsystem in file: operatingsystem.rb
      		 
      Debug: Facter: Searching fact: operatingsystem in core facts and external facts
      		 
      Debug: Facter: Loading all internal facts
      		 
      Debug: Facter: List of resolvable facts: [#<Facter::SearchedFact:0x0000000009e277d8 @name="operatingsystem", @fact_class=Facts::Windows::Os::Name, @user_query="operatingsystem", @type=:legacy, @file=nil>]
      		 
      Debug: Facter: Loading external facts
      		 
      Debug: Facter: fact "operatingsystem" has resolved to: windows
      		 
      Debug: Facter: resolving fact with user_query: operatingsystem
      		 
      Debug: Facter: Searching fact: operatingsystem in file: operatingsystem.rb
      		 
      Debug: Facter: Searching fact: operatingsystem in core facts and external facts
      		 
      Debug: Facter: Loading all internal facts

       

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          is duplicated by

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. FACT-3080 facter.conf facts and fact-groups sections make facter very slow.

          • High - Serious problem that could block progress.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. FACT-3161 "puppet facts" slow down if blocklist used and gets longer

          • Normal - Regular issue, some loss of functionality under specific circumstances.
          • Closed
          relates to

          Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. FACT-3001 Debug output shows facter gets called thousands of times

          • Normal - Regular issue, some loss of functionality under specific circumstances.
          • Closed

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