Comment 12 for bug 520715

It's really difficult to reproduce. Puppet hangs loading the facts, before it ever gets down to any real business. The fact it consistently hangs on is a custom one we've written. Furthermore, it only seems to hang on some types of hardware, and not under strace.

Although that said, when Joel was trying to track down particular Ruby changes, he was able to get a different build of Ruby to reliably hang, even under strace.

I don't think he could get Puppet to hang when run against a trivial manifest, though, so we've had a hard time trying to come up with a minimalist, self-contained test case.