Error: Cannot create /opt/consul/archives; parent directory /opt/consul does not exist

[claflico]

I set my consul::config_hash::data_dir to '/var/lib/consul' in hiera so after upgrading to 2.0.0 I'm now getting the following error:

Error: Cannot create /opt/consul/archives; parent directory /opt/consul does not exist
Error: /Stage[main]/Consul::Install/File[/opt/consul/archives]/ensure: change from absent to directory failed: Cannot create /opt/consul/archives; parent directory /opt/consul does not exist

I initially changed consul::archive_path: '/tmp' but that made the /tmp dir on all my nodes 'a-w' so then I changed it to what used to be the default: consul::archive_path: '/opt/puppet-archive'

[solarkennedy]

Can you try master? I'm pretty sure I fixed this in #308.

[shamil]

@solarkennedy I'm hitting this as well, when the new version (with #308) will be released?

[solarkennedy]

Released. Try 2.1.0.

[madAndroid]

We're still seeing this issue with 2.1.0 -

Error: Cannot create /opt/consul/archives; parent directory /opt/consul does not exist
Error: /Stage[main]/Consul::Install/File[/opt/consul/archives]/ensure: change from absent to directory failed: Cannot create /opt/consul/archives; parent directory /opt/consul does not exist
Notice: /Stage[main]/Consul::Install/File[/opt/consul/archives/consul-0.7.0]: Dependency File[/opt/consul/archives] has failures: true
Warning: /Stage[main]/Consul::Install/File[/opt/consul/archives/consul-0.7.0]: Skipping because of failed dependencies
Notice: /Stage[main]/Consul::Install/Archive[/opt/consul/archives/consul-0.7.0.zip]: Dependency File[/opt/consul/archives] has failures: true
Warning: /Stage[main]/Consul::Install/Archive[/opt/consul/archives/consul-0.7.0.zip]: Skipping because of failed dependencies
Notice: /Stage[main]/Consul::Install/File[/opt/consul/archives/consul-0.7.0/consul]: Dependency File[/opt/consul/archives] has failures: true
Warning: /Stage[main]/Consul::Install/File[/opt/consul/archives/consul-0.7.0/consul]: Skipping because of failed dependencies
Notice: /Stage[main]/Consul::Install/File[/usr/local/bin/consul]: Dependency File[/opt/consul/archives] has failures: true
Warning: /Stage[main]/Consul::Install/File[/usr/local/bin/consul]: Skipping because of failed dependencies
Notice: /Stage[main]/Consul::Config/File[/etc/consul]: Dependency File[/opt/consul/archives] has failures: true
Warning: /Stage[main]/Consul::Config/File[/etc/consul]: Skipping because of failed dependencies
Notice: /Stage[main]/Consul::Config/File[consul config.json]: Dependency File[/opt/consul/archives] has failures: true
Warning: /Stage[main]/Consul::Config/File[consul config.json]: Skipping because of failed dependencies
Notice: /Stage[main]/Profile_influx/Consul::Service[metrics]/File[/etc/consul/service_metrics.json]: Dependency File[/opt/consul/archives] has failures: true
Warning: /Stage[main]/Profile_influx/Consul::Service[metrics]/File[/etc/consul/service_metrics.json]: Skipping because of failed dependencies

[madAndroid]

This appears to be an ordering issue - we're seeing this happening in our integration testing for a few of our profile modules, but not all of them. When the catalog ordering is such that the file resource for the data_dir is not created before the archive is managed, we see this error - but not in all of our profile modules. I'll send a PR with some explicit ordering, once confirmed to be working as expected.

[madAndroid]

Please ignore the above, looks like we've not been setting data_dir in the profile, which was causing this

[warmfusion]

This isn't resolved.

There is an ordering issue between the creation of /opt/consul and its use on the install path, but it appears to be caused by the 'archive' action;

Info: Applying configuration version '1490782076'
Error: Cannot create /opt/consul/archives; parent directory /opt/consul does not exist
Error: /Stage[main]/Consul::Install/File[/opt/consul/archives]/ensure: change from absent to directory failed: Cannot create /opt/consul/archives; parent directory /opt/consul does not exist
Notice: /Stage[main]/Consul::Install/File[/opt/consul/archives/consul-0.7.4]: Dependency File[/opt/consul/archives] has failures: true
Warning: /Stage[main]/Consul::Install/File[/opt/consul/archives/consul-0.7.4]: Skipping because of failed dependencies

Module Version: v2.1.1
Puppet 3.8.7
OS: Debian Jessie 8.6

[joshuaspence]

I am seeing this error on the latest release (3.0.0). I was able to work around it by setting consul::archive_path in Hiera.

[solarkennedy]

Hmm. Is there a commonality amongst these other bug reports? What is your data_dir and what is your install method?

[joshuaspence]

I think I've managed to narrow it down. It seems to occur when $consul::config_defaults['data_dir'] is set (in our case it is set to /var/lib/consul), but $consul::config_hash is left as {}.

[jameseck]

I've just come across the same issue.
I'm setting the config_defaults hash in the common hiera hierarchy for all agents and then setting config_hash to server specific options in my consul servers role hierarchy.
For most of my servers, they are only using config from config_defaults, config_hash is empty.

I believe this is due to the code:
manifests/install.pp:39: $install_prefix = pick($consul::config_hash[data_dir], '/opt/consul')

This only uses the data_dir from $config_hash, not $config_defaults or even the $config_defaults_real hash which actually contains the full config.

I've worked around it by creating a profile module for consul and adding a file { '/opt/consul': ensure => directory } resource.