Jira (FACT-2937) Puppet facts show logs error when stdlib is installed

[Gheorghe Popescu (Jira)]

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Gheorghe Popescu created an issue   Facter / FACT-2937 Puppet facts show logs error when stdlib is installed Issue Type: Bug Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2021/02/04 5:51 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Gheorghe Popescu When running `puppet facts show` and puppetlabs-stdlib is installed, the following error message is shown: Error: Could not autoload puppet/provider/service/init: undefined method `downcase' for nil:NilClass Error: Could not autoload puppet/provider/service/bsd: Could not autoload puppet/provider/service/init: undefined method `downcase' for nil:NilClass Error: Facter: error while resolving custom facts in /etc/puppetlabs/code/modules/stdlib/lib/facter/service_provider.rb Could not autoload puppet/provider/service/bsd: Could not autoload puppet/provider/service/init: undefined method `downcase' for nil:NilClass puppet facts show calls `Facter.resolve` which sets show_legacy to fals when resolving facts, Facter also load modules facts(stdlib) stdlib has a fact that creates a dummy provider: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib/blob/main/lib/facter/service_provider.rb when Facter loads that fact, it calls Puppet to initalize the provider, Puppet tries to see what specific provider is suitable, and when it gets to `init.rb` it calls Facter back, with `operatingsystem` because `Facter::Options[:show_legacy]` is false, Facter.value(:operatingsystem) returns `nil`, which breaks the call of `downcase`: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/main/lib/puppet/provider/service/init.rb#L24 This happens because `Facter::Options` is globally set for the entire run. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.5.2#805002-sha1:a66f935) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-bugs/JIRA.386159.1612446678000.133103.1612446720056%40Atlassian.JIRA.