Puppet node does not pull changes from master

Question

I have followed the following three How-To's

http://terokarvinen.com/2012/puppetmaster-on-ubuntu-12-04

https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/puppet.html#puppet-installation

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/install_puppet/post_install.html

I get to the point of being able to start the puppet node, and on the master using puppet cert --list seeing the certificate and accepting it using cert --sign

However passed this point the node does not pick up the changes from the master. The master has the following node:

   include apache2

And the following manifest:

package {
    'apache2':
        ensure => installed
}

service {
    'apache2':
        ensure => true,
        enable => true,
        require => Package['apache2']
}

I have restarted puppet and puppetmaster multiple times as well as let the servers sit all weekend and still the node has not installed apache2 onto itself.

EDIT:

Using puppet master --verbose -no-daemonize I receive the following:

root@puppetmaster:/etc/puppet/manifests# puppet master --verbose -no-daemonize
Error: Could not intialize global default settings: Error parsing arguments
Wrapped exception:
invalid argument syntax: '--'

Using `puppet agent --test --noop' I receive the following:

root@puppet:/var/log/puppet# puppet agent --test --noop
Notice: Skipping run of Puppet configuration client; administratively disabled (Reason: 'Disabled by default on new installations');
Use 'puppet agent --enable' to re-enable.

Solution 1

I see you do not have logs. I would stop puppetmaster on the master server then run it this way:

puppet master --verbose --no-daemonize

On the node server, stop puppet service and run it verbose with noop:

puppet agent --test --noop

This should give you some output that will hopefully help troubleshooting.

My guess: Certificate issues. It usually is with puppet.

Solution 2

The output from puppet agent that you added to the bottom of your question spells it out:

Notice: Skipping run of Puppet configuration client; administratively disabled (Reason: 'Disabled by default on new installations');

Use 'puppet agent --enable' to re-enable.

It doesn't get any clearer than that.

Comments

[Hydra IO]

Please see my EDITS in my original question.

[Hydra IO]

That worked, I now got Error: /Stage[main]/Main/Service[apache2]: Could not evaluate: Could not find init script or upstart conf file for 'apache2' finally an error to go off!

[NukaRakuForgotEmail]

How is puppetmaster working? Can you re-run the first command I point to and paste output? Once we got that working fine. We could move on to puppet node.

[Hydra IO]

Puppetmaster is currently in verbose mode and I can see all it's output.

[NukaRakuForgotEmail]

Okay, so when you run puppet command above, what do you get? Same issue?

[Hydra IO]

You're help allowed me to get an error output, which allowed me to solve the issue. Thank you!