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Andrew Beresford
Asked: 2013-05-29 02:56:13 +0800 CST

Why can't puppet find my defined resource?

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I have a defined resource in /etc/puppet/modules/autofs/manifests/mount.pp (from the pdx-cat/autofs module at https://forge.puppetlabs.com/pdxcat/autofs).

I have a module in /etc/puppet/modules/sheffield/manifests/autofs/net.pp which is trying to use the autofs::mount defined type.

class sheffield::autofs::net {
  include ::autofs

  autofs::mount { '/net':
    map     => '',
    options => '-hosts',
  }
}

But when the client attempts to grab the catalog, I get the following error;

Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Puppet::Parser::AST::Resource failed with error ArgumentError: Invalid resource type autofs::mount at /etc/puppet/modules/sheffield/manifests/autofs/net.pp:7 on node rhel6test.shef.ac.uk

Any ideas? I thought maybe it was a problem with not being autoload the type as it has the same name (autofs) as a subclass in sheffield::autofs, so I tried renaming to sheffield::auto-fs and it made no difference.

I tried copying the mount.pp from /etc/puppet/autofs/manifests into /etc/puppet/sheffield/manifests/autofs/ and it did find the resource type, but didn't work because of a load of other missing dependencies in mount.pp (and obviously, that's not a nice solution to the problem).

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2 Answers

  1. Since include ::autofs gives no error, you should be able to use the same :: prefix on the define:

    class sheffield::autofs::net {
  ::autofs::mount { '/net':
    ...
  }
}

    If it doesn't work, there is probably an error in modulepath or other related settings.

    include ::autofs line is actually not needed. The mount-define includes all necessary classes.

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  2. I had the same problem: custom resource defined, classes clearly there, listed in Foreman.

    For me, the problem turned out to be that the metadata.json was badly formed, and missing the "source" attribute. Worth checking if nothing else seems to solve the issue!

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