err: Failed to apply catalog: Could not find dependent

[tjbenator]

Added basic setup to a node:

node 'pxe' {
   class { "tftp": }
   class { "pxe": }
}

Receiving the following error:

err: Failed to apply catalog: Could not find dependent Exec[concat_/srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg/default] for File[/var/lib/puppet/concat/_srv_tftp_pxelinux.cfg_default/fragments/10_default-menu-entry-Tools] at /etc/puppet/modules/concat/manifests/fragment.pp:51

I have installed all the require dependencies: puppetlabs/stdlib puppetlabs/xinetd ripienaar/concat puppetlabs/tftp permute: Tried both zleslie/permute (via puppet module install) and xaque208/permute (isn't on puppet forge?) from GitHub. I received more output with xaque208/permute

[zachfi]

I believe this to be fixed recently. @WhatsARanjit can you confirm?

[TheLQ]

This is still failing with latest sources on github. Tried replacing the permute module with the xaque208/permute one on github and I get the same output.

librarian puppet config

mod "xaque208/pxe",
  :git => "git://github.com/xaque208/puppet-pxe.git"
mod "xaque208/permute",
  :git => "git://github.com/xaque208/puppet-permute.git"

manifests/site.pp

node quacktest {    
    class { "tftp": }
    class { "pxe": }
}

Output on quacktest

$ sudo puppet agent --test
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/pe_version.rb
Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/concat_basedir.rb
Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/facter_dot_d.rb
Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/puppet_vardir.rb
Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/root_home.rb
Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/php_version.rb
Info: Caching catalog for quacktest
Error: Failed to apply catalog: Could not find dependent Exec[concat_/srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg/default] for File[/var/lib/puppet/concat/_srv_tftp_pxelinux.cfg_default/fragments/10_default-menu-entry-Tools] at /etc/puppet/modules/concat/manifests/fragment.pp:120

[zachfi]

Can you pleas please make sure you have the puppetlabs/concat included installed and test again?

[TheLQ]

Just checked, I have concat installed. Snippet from the modulefile:

name 'puppetlabs-concat'
version '1.1.0'
source 'git://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-concat.git'
author 'Puppetlabs'
license 'Apache 2.0'
summary 'Concat module'
description 'Concat module'
project_page 'http://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-concat'
dependency 'puppetlabs/stdlib', '>= 4.0.0'

For good measure I added the git source for puppetlabs/concat to my librarian config and rebuilt my modules folder. Tried it on a machine I've never run this module on and I still get the same error.

[zachfi]

Bummer. This module doesn't get too many updates and is in need of some tests. I'll mock up a quick test and see if I can reproduce this. I think I see the bug.

[zachfi]

Can you please test out #13 . I believe this should solve the issue.

[TheLQ]

Yay puppet applies it successfully now! Thanks for the fix

Now I just need to get it working on Ubuntu 14.04. First, this is the the bare minimum config I needed to get PXE to work at all. I also had to restart the xinetd service but I think that's a bug in the tftpd module.

class { "tftp": 
    directory => "/srv/tftp/"
}
class { "pxe": }

When PXE booting this loads the image but fails to load the default config file with "No DEFAULT or UI configuration found". My pxelinux.cfg/default file looks like this

LABEL Tools
  KERNEL menu.c32
  APPEND pxelinux.cfg/menu_tools

If I put DEFAULT menu.c32 at the top it works and I can even run memtest86. I'm not really sure where that file is being generated so I can't provide a patch.

Thanks for the work btw, this is a pretty nice module

[zachfi]

I'll merge the PR that works for you since its an improvement. I'll look at the defaults sometime next week.

[zachfi]

PXE is technically setup, though you don't have a default. Please see the "Menu" section in the README. I believe the first resource in there should cover your use case. If not, please file a new bug.