Puppet: Retrieved certificate does not match private key

Matt — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:08:52 +0000

I’ve been playing around with puppet recently and while trying to start up a client and get it to talk to the server I ran into this error:

err: Could not request certificate: Retrieved certificate does not match private key; please remove certificate from server and regenerate it with the current key

Apparently the root cause of this error is that the client’s ssl certificates have been messed up.

To fix it you have to remove all of the client’s ssl stuff – cd into the directory containing all the ssl info – /etc/puppet/ssl for me running a manual install of puppet 2.6 – and remove all files, in all sub-directories, apart from ‘ca/serial’, which should contain 0000.

Then on the server revoke the client’s ssl certificate using:

sudo pupetca --clean {client hostname}

Then restart the client, resign it on the server and you’re good to go!

Virtualbox – 1 differencing child hard disks

Matt — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:06 +0000

If you’re getting an error along the lines of “{hard disk} cannot be directly attached to the virtual machine because it has 1 differencing child hard disks” Then the solution is to delete the virtual machine (but not the hard … Continue reading →

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Puppet: Retrieved certificate does not match private key

Virtualbox – 1 differencing child hard disks