Last modified: 2013-12-27 18:52:09 UTC
This used to be an e-mail conversation between Andrew Bogott and me. As the error has come back, I'm opening this bug. Puppet doesn't run because of an apt / versions problem, it's giving the error below. Fixing it manually seems to get overridden by puppet. The webserver.pp lines referred to in the error: Line 42 ;) package { [ "apache2", "libapache2-mod-php5" ]: ensure => latest; } Line 79 package { php5-mysql: ensure => latest; } >> err: /Stage[main]/Webserver::Php5-mysql/Package[php5-mysql]/ensure: >> change from 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.5 to 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.4+wmf1 failed: Could >> not update: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o >> DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install php5-mysql' returned 100: >> Reading package lists... >> Building dependency tree... >> Reading state information... >> The following extra packages will be installed: >> libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cli php5-common >> Suggested packages: >> php-pear php5-suhosin >> The following packages will be DOWNGRADED: >> libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-mysql >> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 downgraded, 0 to remove and 0 not >> upgraded. >> Need to get 6598 kB of archives. >> After this operation, 264 kB disk space will be freed. >> E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes >> at /etc/puppet/manifests/webserver.pp:79 >> err: /Stage[main]/Webserver::Php5/Package[libapache2-mod-php5]/ensure: >> change from 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.5 to 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.4+wmf1 failed: Could >> not update: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o >> DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install libapache2-mod-php5' returned >> 100: Reading package lists... >> Building dependency tree... >> Reading state information... >> The following extra packages will be installed: >> php5-cli php5-common php5-mysql >> Suggested packages: >> php-pear php5-suhosin >> The following packages will be DOWNGRADED: >> libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-mysql >> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 downgraded, 0 to remove and 0 not >> upgraded. >> Need to get 6598 kB of archives. >> After this operation, 264 kB disk space will be freed. >> E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes >> at /etc/puppet/manifests/webserver.pp:42
This isn't exactly a puppet bug... it's something a little bit off in the apt repository. Someone pinned a downgraded version of php5-mysql, and puppet won't automatically downgrade packages. I can't find any explanation for this in the server log, but in the meantime you can resolve the problem by just running 'sudo apt-get install php-mysql'
I'm closing this because I haven't seen it in ages.
