Ah 2.7.11 for both. Sorry I missed that in the gist.
I recommend seeing if it fails to load in the same way with 2.7.x. Another
idea is trying to ack through the puppet source for that error message. It
seems like puppet is expecting a method to exist that doesn't exist on the type
or provider.
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Jeff McCune
On Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Jeff McCune wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Luke Kanies wrote:
> > It's great to hear you found the problem, that should be easier to not get
> > wrong. What docs were you following when you made this?
> >
> > As to why it works the first time but not others… I can only think it had
> > something weird to do with file naming, but I can't really imagine what.
> We've made some changes to the way the auto loader works for types and
> providers. Could you let us know what puppet version too? 2.7.x to master in
> particular have some differences in behavior.
>
> -Jeff
>
>
> >
> > On May 2, 2012, at 7:58 AM, Brian Warsing wrote:
> >
> > > Okay,
> > >
> > > I figured out what I was doing wrong...
> > >
> > > I did not place the provider inside it's own directory in lib ('lib/
> > > puppet/provider/simple/simple.rb').
> > >
> > > Foolish.
> > >
> > > Still, perhaps somebody can explain why this works the first time, but
> > > subsequently fails?
> > >
> > > Any info appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > On May 1, 9:56 am, Brian Warsing <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > I have run into an issue where a Simple/Type provider will worl
> > > > correctly on the first run, but subsequent runs produice an error:
> > > >
> > > > err: /Stage[main]/Custom/Simple[some_useless_file]: Could not
> > > > evaluate: No ability to determine if simple exists
> > > >
> > > > Here is the code:
> > > >
> > > > https://gist.github.com/2569267
> > > >
> > > > I have created several other providers, and I have run into this issue
> > > > before, but I don't know how to explain it. Sometimes, it just goes
> > > > away, btu then there are times like this, when it persists regardless
> > > > of what I do.
> > > >
> > > > Other times, a simple change to the provider code like adding a `puts`
> > > > statement, will renew the ability to apply, but very often it is
> > > > (again) only for a single run.
> > > >
> > > > Likewise, purging the contents of /var/lib/puppet will induce it to
> > > > work, but subsequent runs again fail.
> > > >
> > > > I am seriously baffled by this.
> > > >
> > > > Can anybody enlighten me?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > --
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