Puppet Error while signing the certificates

Question

puppet cert --list 

On executing, this command does not return anything.

While starting puppet master, I get the following,

#puppet master --no-daemonize --debug --verbose
info: Could not find certificate for 'client.example.com'

While starting puppet client, I get the following:

puppet agent --server puppet --waitforcert 60 --test --debug  --verbose
notice: Did not receive certificate

What's wrong?

Answer 1

This might be because, the master lost your CSR (Certificate signing request) at some point. The easiest way from here will likely be to generate a new key and CSR on your agent machine, submit and sign that.

On the Puppet agent, do

rm -r /var/lib/puppet/ssl 

This is to get rid of obsolete certificate request data

puppet agent --test 

(output should indicate new CSR being generated)

It should then be possible to sign the certificate on the master in the regular fashion.