warning: Could not retrieve fact fqdn

[ThePixelDeveloper]

When booting the machine you get this warning, worth fixing?

 warning: Could not retrieve fact fqdn

[frastel]

This is more a vagrant related thing. Vagrant names the host like the box name, e.g "precise64" and this is not valid hostname.
You may test it on your own:

touch test.pp
puppet apply test.pp

displays warning

sudo hostname devbox.local
puppet apply test.pp

no warning

sudo hostname precise64
puppet apply test.pp

again warning :)

Besides it is no real problem at all within a dev environment and Puppet standalone. Running Puppet in Puppet Master and Client mode it would be a problem as the machine has to retreive the hostname before provisioning which is not possible when named fact is not given.

[patrickheeney]

I resolved this by putting the code below in my default manifest:

if $virtual == "virtualbox" and $fqdn == '' {
  $fqdn = 'localhost'
}

[jtreminio]

HI @patrickheeney ... thanks for this. I am unsure if I would add it in because while it may suppress the message during puppet provisioning (I haven't tried it yet), it would not suppress messages during the initial shell provisioning.