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

Another possible way to circumvent is to override the fact.

http://www.puppetcookbook.com/posts/override-a-facter-fact.html

FACTER_fqdn=box.example.com facter

On Windows this would be

SET FACTER_fqdn=box.example.com
facter fqdn