undefined method `empty?'

[llowder]

My hierarchy:

---
#This file is managed via puppet.
:hierarchy:
  - "%{node_id}"
  - common
:backends:
  - yaml
  - gpg
:yaml:
  :datadir: '/etc/puppet/hieradata'
:gpg:
  :datadir: /etc/puppet/hieradata
  :key_dir: /etc/puppet/gpgkeys

Whenever I have 'common.gpg' in my hieradata dir, I get the following on every puppet run:

Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: undefined method `empty?' for #<Puppet::Util::Log:0x7f98a0295a28>

My master is on puppet 3.0.2, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

My nodes are a mix of 3.0.2 (test) and 2.7.x (prod), and a mix of Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04.

I have hiera-gpg 1.1.0 installed via gems.

[neoCrimeSecurity]

• Make sure /etc/puppet/gpgkeys and /etc/puppet/gpgkeys/secring.gpg is owned by user puppet, and mode 0600
• Not 100% sure but I think there needs to be at least one yaml file to be found.

Also, good to note when using hiera that you can give it two options:

return = hiera( key, default_value )

This way you can write your module to adapt for errors, or perhaps even use a default value when one is not set in hiera.

[llowder]

From the command line, I can pull values out of the gpg file. But when I do a puppet run, even if that node doesn't use anything from the gpg'd data store, I still get that error.

[crayfishx]

As @neoCrimeLabs said, make sure that you can read /etc/puppet/gpgkeys/secring.gpg from the user that you are running Puppet as..... can you call hiera from the command line as the puppet user succesfully?

[llowder]

If I do "sudo hiera test_key" I get the result I am expecting.

If I do "hiera test_key" as my normal account, I get 'nil'

if I do "sudo su puppet hiera test_key" (or using the www-data user, as I am using Apache+Passenger) I get:

/usr/local/bin/hiera: line 9: require: command not found
/usr/local/bin/hiera: line 11: version: command not found
/usr/local/bin/hiera: hiera: line 13: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/usr/local/bin/hiera: hiera: line 13: `if ARGV.first =~ /^_(.*)_$/ and Gem::Version.correct? $1 then'

(I get this same error regardless of if the .gpg is in place)

If there are no .gpg files in hieradata, then puppet runs complete normally

[llowder]

After running the master in debug, it turned out to be a problem with the keyring. I nuked and recreatedit, and now it is working as expected.

[TomPoulton]

I have this error as well, I can run "sudo hiera ..." and get the right value but puppet throws the empty error.

My keys are in the default location (/root/.gnupg/) and I'm pretty sure puppet master is running as root (it's puppet open source running through passenger and apache, and httpd is running as root). The permissions seem fine, I haven't played with them after gpg did it's thing.

Any ideas?