[Satellite 6] After upgrading to puppet 4, puppetserver fails to start

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The puppetserver service fails to start with below error:

    Oct 26 12:03:02 satellite.example.org puppetserver[31007]: You seem to be missing some important configuration files; could not find /etc/default/puppetserver or /etc/sysconfig/puppetserver
    Oct 26 12:03:02 satellite.example.org systemd[1]: puppetserver.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
    Oct 26 12:03:02 satellite.example.org systemd[1]: Failed to start puppetserver Service.
    

Environment

  • Satellite 6.3
  • Puppet 4

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