[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#513314: comparison of Fixnum with String failed

[Jayen Ashar]

I tried adding "trace = true" to the main and puppetmasterd sections of 
puppet.conf, and also tried changing defaults.rb, so trace would be 
true.  This didn't change any output.

--Jayen

Jayen Ashar wrote:
> can you help me out with enabling --trace?  I tried adding it to 
> puppetd's command line and /etc/default/puppetmaster's DAEMON_OPTS, but 
> didn't get anything.  adding -d and -v gave me stuff, but nothing 
> related to this error.
> 
> --Jayen
> 
> Matthew Palmer wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 02:32:30PM +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote:
>>> Package: puppetmaster
>>> Version: 0.24.6-1
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>> the puppet classifer spits out this as part of its yaml:
>>> ---
>>> classes:
>>>   - debian_etch
>>> parameters:
>>>   stage: 0
>>>
>>> the manifest contains:
>>>   if $stage <= 0 {
>>>
>>> the error message i get is:
>>> err: Could not retrieve catalog: comparison of Fixnum with String 
>>> failed at /etc/puppet/manifests/classes/debian_etch.pp:16 on node 
>>> matht403.maths.unsw.edu.au
>>>
>>> I also tried '$stage <= "0"', but got the same error.  Any way I can
>>> force both to be Fixnums?  Or both to be Strings?
>>
>> Run with --trace to get a backtrace of the problem, then you can possibly
>> use either .to_i or .to_s at the appropriate line in the code to cast the
>> value to whatever you want for your comparison.  Based on this and your
>> other bug, I'd say that there's some really frightening stuff, type-wise,
>> going on in the code related to inequality operators.
>>
>> - Matt
> 

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