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

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 01, 2017

Applies to:

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

Symptoms

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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