Details
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Bug
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Status: Closed
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Normal
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Resolution: Fixed
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Platform Core
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Platform Core KANBAN
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Needs Assessment
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Bug Fix
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The environment_timeout setting will print 'unlimited' when it is set to 'unlimited', and the environment_timeout from the config will be used when there is no environment to set this value.
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No Action
Description
When running puppet config print --all on the command line with environment_timeout set to unlimited in puppet.conf, the value for environment_timeout is listed as Infinity, which is not a valid setting (it can be a positive integer, 0, or `unlimited`). As a user if I saw this I would presume it was a valid setting.
When I try using Infinity as a setting value for environment_timeout, I get a not so helpful error message and stack trace.
puppet apply --environment_timeout=Infinity -e "notify{'foo':}"
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/Users/matthaus/src/puppet/lib/puppet/settings/ttl_setting.rb:43:in `munge': Invalid 'time to live' format '"Infinity"' for parameter: environment_timeout (Puppet::Settings::ValidationError)
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from /Users/matthaus/src/puppet/lib/puppet/settings/ttl_setting.rb:25:in `munge'
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from /Users/matthaus/src/puppet/lib/puppet/settings.rb:1310:in `interpolate'
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from /Users/matthaus/src/puppet/lib/puppet/settings.rb:1082:in `value_sym'
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from /Users/matthaus/src/puppet/lib/puppet/settings.rb:1054:in `value'
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from /Users/matthaus/src/puppet/lib/puppet/settings/environment_conf.rb:87:in `environment_timeout'
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from /Users/matthaus/src/puppet/lib/puppet/environments.rb:414:in `entry'
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from /Users/matthaus/src/puppet/lib/puppet/environments.rb:345:in `get'
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from /Users/matthaus/src/puppet/lib/puppet/util/autoload.rb:131:in `module_directories'
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from /Users/matthaus/src/puppet/lib/puppet/util/autoload.rb:166:in `search_directories'
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from /Users/matthaus/src/puppet/lib/puppet/util/autoload.rb:100:in `files_to_load'
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from /Users/matthaus/src/puppet/lib/puppet/util/autoload.rb:220:in `files_to_load'
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from /Users/matthaus/src/puppet/lib/puppet/application.rb:212:in `available_application_names'
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from /Users/matthaus/src/puppet/lib/puppet/util/command_line.rb:90:in `find_subcommand'
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from /Users/matthaus/src/puppet/lib/puppet/util/command_line.rb:73:in `execute'
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from /usr/bin/puppet:5:in `<main>'
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The simple reproducer here is:
puppet config print --environment_timeout=unlimited environment_timeout
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Infinity
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