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diff --git a/DOCUMENTATION.md b/DOCUMENTATION.md index 5cf230b..b103868 100644 --- a/DOCUMENTATION.md +++ b/DOCUMENTATION.md @@ -429,6 +429,25 @@ need to remount the root filesystem in read-write mode. You can do this with: mount -n -o remount / ``` +###I get a file dependency error when running Puppet-Gluster. + +In order for Puppet-Gluster to be able to do its magic, it needs to store some +temporary files on each GlusterFS host. These files usually get stored in: +_/var/lib/puppet/tmp/gluster/_. The parent directory (_/var/lib/puppet/tmp/_) +gets created by the _puppet::vardir_ module. The error you'll typically see is: + +```bash +Error: Failed to apply catalog: Could not find dependency +File[/var/lib/puppet/tmp/] for File[/var/lib/puppet/tmp/gluster/] at +/etc/puppet/modules/gluster/manifests/vardir.pp:49 +``` + +This error occurs if you forget to _include_ the _puppet::vardir_ class from +the [puppet-puppet](https://github.com/purpleidea/puppet-puppet/) module. If +you don't want to include the entire module, you can pull in the +_puppet::vardir_ class by itself, or create the contained file type manually in +your puppet manifests. + ###Will this work on my favourite OS? (eg: GNU/Linux F00bar OS v12 ?) If it's a GNU/Linux based OS, can run GlusterFS, and Puppet, then it will probably work. Typically, you might need to add a yaml data file to the _data/_ |