Applying customizations for deployment ONLY through puppet failing with the error

After I created the psft_customizations.yaml and executed the command puppet apply site.pp --debug --trace under manifests, it was failing with the errors as below. I was intending to apply the deployment customization in the peoplesoft application and was looking to use the user profile for deployment as delivered default i.e, psadm1,psadm2,psadm3 and oracle2.

From the error message, I analysed that puppet script is unable to create the user profile folders in the home directory i.e,

/home/psadm1
/home/psadm2
/home/psadm3
/home/oracle2

Error: Could not set 'present' on ensure: No such file or directory - /home/psadm2/.profile at 59:/etc/puppet/modules/pt_profile/manifests/pt_system/users.pp
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/type/file.rb:812:in `initialize'
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/type/file.rb:812:in `open'

/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util/command_line.rb:146:in `run'

/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util/command_line.rb:92:in `execute'

/usr/bin/puppet:8:in `<main>'

Wrapped exception:

No such file or directory - /home/psadm2/.profile

/usr/s

Error: /Stage[main]/Pt_profile::Pt_system::Users/File[/home/psadm2/.profile]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Could not set 'present' on ensure: No such file or directory - /home/psadm2/.profile at 59:/etc/puppet/modules/pt_profile/manifests/pt_system/users.pp

Notice: /Stage[main]/Pt_profile::Pt_system::Users/Exec[chage -d 0 psadm2]: Dependency File[/home/psadm2/.profile] has failures: true

Warning: /Stage[main]/Pt_profile::Pt_system::Users/Exec[chage -d 0 psadm2]: Skipping because of failed dependencies

Error: /Stage[main]/Pt_profile::Pt_system::Users/File[/home/psadm3/.profile]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Could not set 'present' on ensure: No such file or directory - /home/psadm3/.profile at 59:/etc/puppet/modules/pt_profile/manifests/pt_system/users.pp

Notice: /Stage[main]/Pt_profile::Pt_system::Users/Exec[chage -d 0 psadm3]: Dependency File[/home/psadm3/.profile] has failures: true

Warning: /Stage[main]/Pt_profile::Pt_system::Users/Exec[chage -d 0 psadm3]: Skipping because of failed dependencies

Error: Could not set 'present' on ensure: No such file or directory - /home/oracle2/.profile at 59:/etc/puppet/modules/pt_profile/manifests/pt_system/users.pp

/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/type/file.rb:812:in `initialize'

Error: Could not set 'present' on ensure: No such file or directory - /home/oracle2/.profile at 59:/etc/puppet/modules/pt_profile/manifests/pt_system/users.pp

/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/type/file.rb:812:in `initialize'

Error: /Stage[main]/Pt_profile::Pt_system::Users/File[/home/oracle2/.profile]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Could not set 'present' on ensure: No such file or directory - /home/oracle2/.profile at 59:/etc/puppet/modules/pt_profile/manifests/pt_system/users.pp

Notice: /Stage[main]/Pt_profile::Pt_system::Users/Exec[chage -d 0 oracle2]: Dependency File[/home/oracle2/.profile] has failures: true

Warning: /Stage[main]/Pt_profile::Pt_system::Users/Exec[chage -d 0 oracle2]: Skipping because of failed dependencies

Warning: /Stage[main]/Pt_profile::Pt_tools_deployment/Notify[Applying pt_profile::pt_tools_deployment]: Skipping because of failed dependencies

Warning: /Stage[main]/Pt_setup::Tools_deployment/File[/home/fs91dev/ps_home8.55.05]: Skipping because of failed dependencies

Warning: /Stage[main]/Pt_profile::Pt_psft_environment/Pt_setup::User_environment[oracle2_environment]/File[oracle2_environment]: Skipping because of failed dependencies

Warning: /Stage[main]/Pt_profile::Pt_psft_environment/Pt_setup::User_environment[psadm2_environment]/File[psadm2_environment]: Skipping because of failed dependencies

Solution

As a solution to the issue, I have created the user profile folders manually in the home directory using the root linux user(note that I am installing PeopleSoft PeopleTools using the root user). 

mkdir psadm1 psadm2 psadm3 oracle2

drwxr-xr-x.  2 root      root           6 May 23 15:16 psadm1

drwxr-xr-x.  2 root      root           6 May 23 15:16 psadm2

drwxr-xr-x.  2 root      root           6 May 23 15:16 psadm3

drwxr-xr-x.  2 root      root           6 May 23 15:16 oracle2

Once done, I navigated to /etc/puppet/manifests and executed the command 

 puppet apply site.pp --debug --trace

This deployed the customized components in the server.

Ensure to change the permission and owner post deploying the tools and components.

You can also delete the user folders created above manually once the deployment is completed.