Details
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Improvement
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Status: Resolved
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Normal
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Resolution: Fixed
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None
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Night's Watch
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NW - 2021-06-02
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Bug Fix
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Due to missing required features, error with unwanted message was given when trying to set a service to `delayed_start` on other operating systems than Windows. This fix improves Puppet's behaviour and the error message.
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Needs Assessment
Description
[root@cloud ~]# puppet resource service puppet enable=delayedError: Could not set 'delayed' on enable: undefined method `delayed_start' for Service[puppet](provider=systemd):Puppet::Type::Service::ProviderSystemd |
Error: Could not set 'delayed' on enable: undefined method `delayed_start' for Service[puppet](provider=systemd):Puppet::Type::Service::ProviderSystemd |
Wrapped exception:
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undefined method `delayed_start' for Service[puppet](provider=systemd):Puppet::Type::Service::ProviderSystemd |
Error: /Service[puppet]/enable: change from 'true' to 'delayed' failed: Could not set 'delayed' on enable: undefined method `delayed_start' for Service[puppet](provider=systemd):Puppet::Type::Service::ProviderSystemd |
service
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{ 'puppet': enable => 'true', provider => 'systemd', } |
Wouldn’t it be nicer if enable=>delayed resolved to enable=>true on Linux? That would prevent the user from having to creating extra Puppet logic for this parameter in cross-platform scenarios. If not, the resource should at least return a proper error that delayed is not supported on Linux.
/cc: kevin.reeuwijk