No longer finding interface config scripts in CentOS

[Aethylred]

Since the resolving #36 and #37 the network module no longer seems to be detecting interface configuration files in CentOS 6.4.

err: Could not prefetch network_config provider 'redhat': No resource and no name in property hash in redhat instance
notice: /Stage[main]//Node[login.tamaki.test.nesi.org.nz]/Network_config[eth0]/ensure: created
err: /Stage[main]//Node[login.tamaki.test.nesi.org.nz]/Network_config[eth0]: Could not evaluate: No resource and no name in property hash in redhat instance
err: /Stage[main]//Node[login.tamaki.test.nesi.org.nz]/Network_config[eth1]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Puppet::Type::Network_config::ProviderRedhat is in an error state

[ericsakowski]

I could not reproduce this error using a puppet 2.7 client connecting to a puppet 2.7 master.

I was able to reproduce by connecting the 2.7 client on CentOS 6.3 to a puppet 3.0 master on RHEL 6.3, though:

err: Could not prefetch network_config provider 'redhat': No resource and no name in property hash in redhat instance
notice: /Stage[main]/Profile::Proxy_dev/Network_config[lo:6]/ensure: created
err: /Stage[main]/Profile::Proxy_dev/Network_config[lo:6]: Could not evaluate: No resource and no name in property hash in redhat instance
err: /Stage[main]/Profile::Proxy_dev/Network_config[lo:3]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Puppet::Type::Network_config::ProviderRedhat is in an error state
err: /Stage[main]/Profile::Proxy_dev/Network_config[lo:1]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Puppet::Type::Network_config::ProviderRedhat is in an error state
err: /Stage[main]/Profile::Proxy_dev/Network_config[lo:2]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Puppet::Type::Network_config::ProviderRedhat is in an error state
err: /Stage[main]/Profile::Proxy_dev/Network_config[lo:7]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Puppet::Type::Network_config::ProviderRedhat is in an error state
err: /Stage[main]/Profile::Proxy_dev/Network_config[lo:5]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Puppet::Type::Network_config::ProviderRedhat is in an error state
err: /Stage[main]/Profile::Proxy_dev/Network_config[lo:4]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Puppet::Type::Network_config::ProviderRedhat is in an error state
notice: Finished catalog run in 0.18 seconds

Hope this helps narrow it down a bit.

[ericsakowski]

ok that was a red herring...after all this i went back and tested 2.7 node on 2.7 master and still get the same 'error state' and prefetch errors.

[Aethylred]

It seemed to run fine the first time, and then entered the error state.

Puppet master seems to be running 2.7.12 on Ubuntu 11.10 with kernel 3.0.0-24. This is the puppet package distributed from the Ubuntu package repository (well... our local mirror)

The client in question is running Puppet 2.6.18 on CentOS 6.4 with kernel 2.6.32-258. This is the puppet package currently distributed via the EPEL repository.

We don't really want to add the Puppetlabs repository and jump to Puppet 3.x (yet).

[Aethylred]

Resolved by #40! Awesome.