Comment 15 for bug 520715

Sorry, I should have made this clearer.

I work with Joel and Andrew, and am responsible for the Puppet infrastructure here.

I spent a while debugging what was causing Facter and/or Puppet to hang, and it all came down to the calls being wrapped in Timeout.

I did reproduce this on Debian Testing under VMware, but it wasn't *quite* as reproducible as it appears to be under Lucid for me, it would fail one in every few runs rather than absolutely every run when other cores were busy.

How many cores were on the machine you tried to reproduce on Lucas?