Consul template writes garbage to templates (rpc error: unexpected EOF)

[jnsaff]

When Consul is having trouble Consul Template writes error messages into the template outputs. In my case it's "rpc error: unexpected EOF". Having garbage written into configuration files for applications is worse then writing anything at all or keeping previous good file.

[sethvargo]

Hi @jnsaff

That seems like a bad thing - can you please share your configuration file and the command you are running?

[jnsaff]

This was not a consultemplate problem after all. We downloaded the templates via curl from consul to be used by consultemplate. Consul itself gave 200 response to a failing request and this content. So this is a problem with Consul and/or how our workflow is set up. Sorry about crying wolf without understanding the issue.

[sflint]

I am having a similar issue :

==> WARNING: LAN keyring exists but -encrypt given, using keyring
==> Starting Consul agent...
==> Starting Consul agent RPC...
==> Joining cluster...
==> EOF

This is what I get when trying to connect to a cluster with a client agent

Config file :
{
"server": false,
"datacenter": "nyc2",
"data_dir": "/var/consul",
"ui_dir": "/home/consul/dist",
"encrypt": "F5dVJ1T1JXKKdUDlKOTkBw==",
"log_level": "INFO",
"enable_syslog": true,
"start_join" : ["192.186.2.44","192.168.2.45","192.168.2.46"],
"bind_addr" : "192.168.2.47",
"node_name" : "192.168.2.47"
}

[sflint]

I think I found what the issue is : hashicorp/consul#1013