Puppet/Facter “Could not retrieve fact fqdn”: How to fix or circumvent?

Question

I\'m learning about puppet and trying to experiment with it on a VM at home. I\'m not using a puppet server yet, just running things locally. It works okay, but every time I

Answer 1

I got the same error when running puppet on my home machine (Xubuntu). What worked for me was changing the second line of file /etc/hosts. The first two lines before the change:

127.0.0.1   localhost
127.0.1.1   box

And after the change:

127.0.0.1   localhost
127.0.1.1   box.example.com box

Now, the command hostname -f returns box.example.com instead of box, and puppet is happy.