Package: puppet Version: 4.8.1-1 Severity: normal Puppet fails to start but doesn't say why or what to change to correct it.
systemctl start puppet.service Job for puppet.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status puppet.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. root@gateway:/var/log/syslog/local# systemctl status puppet.service ● puppet.service - LSB: puppet agent Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/puppet; generated; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2017-01-06 14:18:05 GMT; 5s ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Process: 14879 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/puppet start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Jan 06 14:18:05 gateway systemd[1]: Starting LSB: puppet agent... Jan 06 14:18:05 gateway puppet[14879]: Starting puppet agent failed! Jan 06 14:18:05 gateway systemd[1]: puppet.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1 Jan 06 14:18:05 gateway systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: puppet agent. Jan 06 14:18:05 gateway systemd[1]: puppet.service: Unit entered failed state. Jan 06 14:18:05 gateway systemd[1]: puppet.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. journalctl -xe gives no output related to Puppet. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages puppet depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii facter 2.4.6-1 ii hiera 3.2.0-2 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii ruby 1:2.3.3 ii ruby-augeas 1:0.5.0-3+b4 ii ruby-deep-merge 1.1.1-1 ii ruby-rgen 0.8.0-1 ii ruby-safe-yaml 1.0.4-1 ii ruby-shadow 2.4.1-1+b3 ii ruby1.9.1 [ruby-interpreter] 1.9.3.484-2 ii ruby2.0 [ruby-interpreter] 2.0.0.484+really457-3 ii ruby2.1 [ruby-interpreter] 2.1.5-4 ii ruby2.2 [ruby-interpreter] 2.2.4-1 Versions of packages puppet recommends: ii debconf-utils 1.5.59 ii lsb-release 9.20161125 ii ruby-selinux 2.6-3 Versions of packages puppet suggests: pn ruby-rrd <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/puppet/puppet.conf changed: [main] logdir=/var/log/puppet vardir=/var/lib/puppet ssldir=/var/lib/puppet/ssl rundir=/run/puppet factpath=$vardir/lib/facter server=gateway.bandsman.co.uk environment=barnsley [master] ssl_client_header = SSL_CLIENT_S_DN ssl_client_verify_header = SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY vardir = /var/lib/puppet cadir = /var/lib/puppet/ssl/ca dns_alt_names = puppet certname=gateway.bandsman.co.uk -- no debconf information