I'm getting this error on all my clients, debian and CentOS, where the line number depends on which case is selected for the OS;
err: Could not run Puppet configuration client: Invalid parameter stage at /etc/puppet/manifests/nodes.pp:32
The server is CentOS 5.4 with packages from the epel-puppet repos;
# rpm -qa | grep puppet
puppet-dashboard-1.0.3-3
puppet-2.6.1-0.3.rc3.el5
puppet-server-2.6.1-0.3.rc3.el5
The clients are;
# rpm -qa | grep puppet
puppet-0.25.5-1.el5
and my code to bootstrap the puppet install in nodes.pp looks like this;
node default {
include puppet
if versioncmp($puppetversion, '2.6.0') < 0 {
case $operatingsystem {
CentOS: {
notice('In the centos cases')
file { "/etc/puppet/puppet.conf":
owner => root,
group => root,
mode => 644,
source => "puppet:///bpcommon/basenode/etc/puppet/puppet-
centos.conf",
**line 32 }
}
debian: {
file { "/etc/puppet/puppet.conf":
owner => root,
group => root,
mode => 644,
source => "puppet:///bpcommon/basenode/etc/puppet/
puppet.deb.conf",
}
}
}
}
}
any suggestions what the error is about, I am guessing that the server is providing a stage parameter which the client is rejecting. but I was under the impression the server should work with older clients..
This was working well with back-version puppet clients on debian puppet clinet version 0.24.5-3
now everything has stopped working 0.24 and 0.25 clients.
I presume it is an incompatibility problem between the 2.6.0 stage functionality and backversion, but I seem to have done something to trigger it.
