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  1. Puppet
  2. PUP-3655

Error: /File[/var/lib/puppet/facts.d]: Could not evaluate when no facts.d folder on any module

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          • Type: Bug
          • Status: Closed
          • Priority: Normal
          • Resolution: Duplicate
          • Affects Version/s: PUP 3.7.3
          • Fix Version/s: None
          • Component/s: None
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            Description

            Puppet reports an error when it cannot find any facts.d folder in any module:

            Error: /File[/var/lib/puppet/facts.d]: Could not evaluate: Could not retrieve information from environment some_environment source(s) puppet://puppet.master/pluginfacts

            the workaround is to create a "facts.d" folder at $environmentpath/module_name/.

            This is a bug, because this happens due to:

            puppet/lib/puppet/file_serving/mount/pluginfacts.rb

            def find(relative_path, request)
            		 
              return nil unless mod = request.environment.modules.find { |mod|
            		 
                mod.pluginfact(relative_path)
            		 
              }
            		 
              path = mod.pluginfact(relative_path)
            		 
              path
            		 
            end

            which gets called when requestin pluginfacts and that basicly will return "whatever path" it can find if it can find a "fact.d" path somewhere, and nil otherwise.

            Now whats the whole point of such a "find" if it just returns whatever? Why to make it in a way that breaks backwards compatibility with puppet 3.5? No idea...

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                duplicates

                Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PUP-2608 An error is logged during an agent run if the puppetmaster does not have at least one <module>/lib dir in its modules directory.

                • Normal - Regular issue, some loss of functionality under specific circumstances.
                • Accepted
                is duplicated by

                Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PUP-3324 pluginsync fails when no source is available

                • 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-802 cannot use text-based external facts to represent empty fact-values.

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

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                      Reporter:
                      hsanjuan Hector Sanjuan
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