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Mammoth Puppet Action Raises "Failed to apply catalog: Could not retrieve local facts: Caught recursion on kernel" (Doc ID 2303528.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 15, 2020

Applies to:

Big Data Appliance Integrated Software - Version 4.5.0 and later
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

NOTE: In the examples that follow, user details, cluster names, hostnames, directory paths, filenames, etc. represent a fictitious sample (and are used to provide an illustrative example only). Any similarity to actual persons, or entities, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended in any manner.

Running any Mammoth action fails with output like:

ERROR: Puppet agent run on node bdanode0x had errors. List of errors follows
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Error [14404]: (//bdanode0x.example.com/Puppet) Failed to apply catalog: Could not retrieve local facts: Caught recursion on kernel

This puppet agent failure will cause the associated Mammoth action to fail.

Cause

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