Puppet master and client on one machine - puppet

Question

I would like to test the puppet client on the same machine as the master resides. I followed this tutorial "http://www.elsotanillo.net/2011/08/installing-puppet-master-and-client-in-the-same-host-the-debian-way/". He was saying that generating SSL at the right moment is the trick involved in keeping master and client communicating successfully in one machine. I killed puppet master process, generated puppet.conf file as he given in that link, installed puppet client, but when I try to generate SSL using the below command. It failed. You could see the log below.
puppetd --no-daemonize --onetime --verbose --waitforcert 30
I replaced puppetd with puppet agent to make it work in latest version of puppet
Warning: Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will
continue:
Warning: Connection timed out - connect(2)
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Error: /File[/home/lhdadmin/.puppet/var/facts.d]: Failed to generate
additional resources using 'eval_generate': Connection timed out -
connect(2)
Error: /File[/home/lhdadmin/.puppet/var/facts.d]: Could not evaluate:
Could not retrieve file metadata for puppet://puppet/pluginfacts:
Connection timed out - connect(2)
Info: Retrieving plugin
Error: /File[/home/lhdadmin/.puppet/var/lib]: Failed to generate
additional resources using 'eval_generate': Connection timed out -
connect(2)
Error: /File[/home/lhdadmin/.puppet/var/lib]: Could not evaluate:
Could not retrieve file metadata for puppet://puppet/plugins:
Connection timed out - connect(2)
I tried to install puppetdb thinking that was the missing component could be triggering the above error, but it couldn't find puppetdb module to install. see the errors below
sudo puppet resource package puppetdb ensure=latest
Error: Could not update: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o
DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install puppetdb' returned 100:
Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state
information... E: Unable to locate package puppetdb Error:
/Package[puppetdb]/ensure: change from purged to latest failed: Could
not update: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o
DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install puppetdb' returned 100:
Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state
information... E: Unable to locate package puppetdb
package { 'puppetdb': ensure => 'purged', }

Answer 1

Aah , I think you have not mentioned your puppet class in init.pp or have defined your node in node.pp .
If you don't want to use puppetdb then please don't include in your puppet/puppet.conf file and if you want to use it then cross check the puppetdb by login in manually by the user mentioned in puppet.conf file.
storeconfigs = true
dbname = puppet-db
dbadapter = mysql
dbuser = puppet-user
dbpassword = puppet
dbserver = localhost
Also check for the proper repo in /etc/apt/sources.list , E: Unable to locate package puppetdb this error generally occurs due to failed internet connectivity, or if it is unable to reach the server.