puppet server deamon not starting, Please HELP
so i have this puppet server managing about 900 machines. one machine was removed from the ORG and then when i run the clean command on the cert i get the error: Retrieved certificate does not match private key; please remove certificate from server and regenerate it with the current key
also the puppet server daemon is not running either and the reason why is because of the above error.
i found this machine and plugged it back in and tried removing the dir: /vsr/lib/puppet/ssl and /ssl then tried to retest it by doing puppetd --test then ...
Can you provide what version of puppet, what OS and how you installed (packages, gems, tarball, source etc)?
Where did you run the
cleancommand? On the master or on the node you removed? There is no way to forcefully start the daemon with errors, they will have ...(more)