Rudder

Hi Nicolas, how could you upgrade from 6.0.6-debian10 to 6.1.1-ubuntu18.04 since it's not the same distribution.

However this explains clearly the error, it's not the same version of perl.

Benoît PECCATTE wrote in #note-1:

Hi Nicolas, how could you upgrade from 6.0.6-debian10 to 6.1.1-ubuntu18.04 since it's not the same distribution.

However this explains clearly the error, it's not the same version of perl.

Ok, I understand the origin of the issue :
In my directive about upgrading the rudder agent, I'm using a parameter that was mis-interpreted, sometimes as "buster", sometimes as other strings.
When the upgrades came, they upgraded using the wrong package.

I'm using this :

deb http://repository.rudder.io/apt/6.1/ ${debiancodename} main
but I have to find a better suited and generic variable...

Wait a minute, this variable looks good, so there must be something else...

Another example with Debian 9 :
- apt purge rudder-agent
- force cleanup of /var/rudder /opt/rudder /var/backups/rudder
- apt install rudder-agent
The rudder agent 6.1.1-debian9 is installing OK
- reboot

Then :
- reboot
M| State         Technique                 Component                 Key                Message
E| repaired      Common                    Compute inventory splay   rudder_run_invent| Scheduling rudder_run_inventory was repaired
   error: Finished command related to promiser '/opt/rudder/bin/run-inventory --local=/var/rudder/tmp/inventory/sit-web-8d4becee-211f-43d3-9a0d-744a6fb2f6ec.ocs' -- an error occurred, returned 1
Start execution with config [0]

E| error         Inventory                 inventory                                    Could not execute the inventory
   error: Method 'fusionAgent' failed in some repairs
   error: Method 'doInventory_always' failed in some repairs
info     Rudder agent was run on a subset of policies - not all policies were checked

## Summary #####################################################################
2 components verified in 4 directives
   => 2 components in Enforce mode
      -> 1 repaired
      -> 1 error
Execution time: 0.95s
################################################################################
 Done
FINISH: Rudder agent check ran properly, please look at messages above to see if there has been any error.
root@sit-web:~# /opt/rudder/bin/run-inventory --local=/var/rudder/tmp/inventory/sit-web-8d4becee-211f-43d3-9a0d-744a6fb2f6ec.ocs
[info] FusionInventory instance: builtin - Perl instance: system
ListUtil.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched (got handshake key 0xdb80080, needed 0xce00080)
root@sit-web:~# rudder agent inventory -v|less -R
root@sit-web:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:    Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 9.6 (stretch)
Release:    9.6
Codename:    stretch
root@sit-web:~# dpkg --list|grep rudder-agent
ii  rudder-agent                    6.1.1-debian9                  amd64        Configuration management and audit tool - agent
root@sit-web:~# rudder agent version
Rudder agent 6.1.1-debian9

On some Debian 10 buster nodes, I'm force to :
- apt purge rudder-agent
- rm fr /var/rudder/ /var/backups/rudder/ /opt/rudder/
apt update && apt install rudder-agent
- echo 'a.b.c.d' > blablabla policy_server.dat...
- accept the node
unless this PERL binaries mismatch keeps bugging me.

could you also run a "perl --version" on this debian 9 ?
Than you

Benoît PECCATTE wrote in #note-6:

could you also run a "perl --version" on this debian 9 ?
Than you

Let's not focus on debian version, as it appears on debian 9 and 10, and I may have seen it on ubuntu and maybe centos nodes.
For instance, our root server is a debian 10 and is hit by this issue.
perl --version is giving :

perl 5, version 28, subversion 1 (v5.28.1) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
(with 61 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

One user also reported this issue, and it was caused by old .so files in /opt/rudder/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi/