foreman with puppet 3 Could not find value for $confdir

Question

i cannot start foreman under puppet version 3

foreman/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/settings.rb:252:in `convert': Error converting value for param 'hostcert': Error converting value for param 'certdir': Error converting value for param 'ssldir': Could not find value for $confdir (Puppet::Settings::InterpolationError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/settings.rb:243:in `gsub'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/settings.rb:243:in `convert'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/settings.rb:971:in `value'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/settings.rb:249:in `convert'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/settings.rb:243:in `gsub'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/settings.rb:243:in `convert'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/settings.rb:971:in `value'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/settings.rb:249:in `convert'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/settings.rb:243:in `gsub'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/settings.rb:243:in `convert'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/settings.rb:971:in `value'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/settings.rb:66:in `[]'
        from /usr/share/foreman/lib/foreman/default_settings/loader.rb:43:in `load'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.0.17/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:139:in `transaction'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.0.17/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:207:in `transaction'
        from /usr/share/foreman/lib/foreman/default_settings/loader.rb:28:in `load'
        from /usr/share/foreman/config/initializers/foreman.rb:4
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.17/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:236:in `load'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.17/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:236:in `load'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.17/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:227:in `load_dependency'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.17/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:236:in `load'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.17/lib/rails/engine.rb:201
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.17/lib/rails/engine.rb:200:in `each'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.17/lib/rails/engine.rb:200
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.17/lib/rails/initializable.rb:25:in `instance_exec'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.17/lib/rails/initializable.rb:25:in `run'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.17/lib/rails/initializable.rb:50:in `run_initializers'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.17/lib/rails/initializable.rb:49:in `each'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.17/lib/rails/initializable.rb:49:in `run_initializers'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.17/lib/rails/application.rb:134:in `initialize!'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.17/lib/rails/application.rb:77:in `send'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.17/lib/rails/application.rb:77:in `method_missing'
        from /usr/share/foreman/config/environment.rb:5
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.17/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:242:in `require'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.17/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:242:in `require'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.17/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:225:in `load_dependency'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.17/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:597:in `new_constants_in'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.17/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:225:in `load_dependency'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.17/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:242:in `require'
        from /usr/share/foreman/config.ru:3
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/rack-1.2.5/lib/rack/builder.rb:46:in `instance_eval'
        from /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/rack-1.2.5/lib/rack/builder.rb:46:in `initialize'
        from /usr/share/foreman/config.ru:1:in `new'
        from /usr/share/foreman/config.ru:1
 failed!

i have applied all the workarounds from the below urls and still could not resolve it

http://theforeman.org/attachments/410/3_0-hack.patch http://theforeman.org/projects/foreman/wiki/PuppetThreeWorkarounds https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/foreman-users/QHyu-U7nE6Q http://theforeman.org/projects/foreman/wiki/Troubleshooting

below is my puppet.conf

[main]
logdir=/var/log/puppet
vardir=/var/lib/puppet
ssldir=/var/lib/puppet/ssl
rundir=/var/run/puppet
factpath=/var/lib/puppet/lib/facter
templatedir=/etc/puppet/templates
hostcert = /var/lib/puppet/ssl/certs/puppet.pem
certdir = /var/lib/puppet/ssl/certs

[master]
ssl_client_header = SSL_CLIENT_S_DN 
ssl_client_verify_header = SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY

#reports
reports = http,store
reporturl = http://puppet:3000/reports

i tried manually adding confdir=/etc/puppet to the puppet.conf and still dint help

i have restarted all the foreman-proxy and puppet services and still no luck. appreciate any help to start foreman on this box.

puppet version 3.0.1,foreman version 1.0 on debian 2.6.32-5

Thanks

Answer 1

I've been making a few changes to squash this recently and have been updating the PuppetThreeWorkarounds page that you mentioned.

With nightly packages from 6th December, or the 1.1 RC1, this issue should be resolved.