uuidgen isn't part of a base debian system

[cwseys]

Example:

# puppet agent -tv
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Loading facts
Info: Loading facts
sh: 1: /usr/bin/uuidgen: not found
Info: Caching catalog for ns1.physics.wisc.edu
Info: Applying configuration version '1428526910'

Probably in one of the "facts" ?
/usr/share/puppet/modules/gluster# grep uuidgen . -r
[...]
./lib/facter/gluster_fsuuid.rb: result = system("/usr/bin/uuidgen > '" + uuidfile + "'")
./lib/facter/gluster_uuid.rb: result = system("/usr/bin/uuidgen > '" + uuidfile + "'")
[...]

[cwseys]

Thanks!
C.

[purpleidea]

@lickdragon Please provide some information on what os/version you're running this on.
Also provide the output of:
which uuidgen

Thanks

[cwseys]

Hi! Debian Wheezy root@host#which uuidgen root@host# (command prompt comes back with no output from which. it appears that uuidgen is not installed by default. To workaround, I could install uuid-runtime on all nodes (even non-gluster nodes). Thanks, C.

[purpleidea]

@lickdragon Looks like it's a legit issue then. Could you send a patch to add this package into the requirements for puppet-gluster? It would need to use this technique: https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/hiera-data-in-modules-and-os-independent-puppet/

There are lots of code examples that do this currently in puppet-gluster.

Thanks,
James

[bittner]

Doesn't that translate to:

Puppet (or facter?) requires the uuidgen command, i.e. the uuid-runtime package as a dependency on Debian systems? Then Puppet Labs needs to fix that.

See ticket PUP-3704 in the Puppet Labs bug tracker for reference.

[purpleidea]

@bittner I'm not maintaining this package much anymore, but I can add you as a maintainer if you want to send some patches. Most of my work is on https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ these days.

[bittner]

No no no, don't get me wrong! 😊

I only found this ticket when doing research on "/usr/bin/uuidgen: not found", and since the issue status is still "open" I thought, "drop them a note". No worries!

[ashahba]

Any updates on this issue?
We need this is also for our CI environment during kubeflow install:
https://circleci.com/gh/IntelAI/mlt/2078