Malformed debian interfaces file error when running puppet daemon

[Aethylred]

I'm observing some unusual behavior with Puppet is version 2.7.18 running on Ubuntu 12.10.

When puppet is run manually with puppet agent -t or if the puppet daemon is restarted then the manifests runs fine, but after a few runs it starts throwing:

Could not prefetch network_config provider 'interfaces': Malformed debian interfaces file; cannot instantiate network_config resources

I suspect on machines configured to run the puppet agent from a cron job will not throw this error.

This is similar to what's reported in #44

[adrienthebo]

It's strange that it runs for a while, then suddenly fails. With respect to it staying failed, that seems to be a part of the failsafe mechanism that's triggering (https://github.com/adrienthebo/puppet-filemapper/blob/master/lib/puppetx/filemapper.rb#L248). The idea is that if a resource can't be flushed then we don't know what the state of the file is in, and shouldn't try to mangle it anymore. However, we should retry on a new puppet run, so this seems like a design oversight. Would you be able to try out a patch for the filemapper module to see if we can resolve the permanent failure mode issue?

[jyaworski]

Hello:

What's the status of this issue? I'm just pinging old issues.

[sacres]

As this is from the wayback machine as well as the puppet version, etc. EOL; I'll close this. @Aethylred