provider error on ubuntu 24.04

[peterwoj]

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet: 8.4.0
• Ruby: 3.2.3
• Distribution: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)
• Module version: 1.1.1

How to reproduce (e.g Puppet code you use)

Attempt to install a module on 24.04

package { 'tree': ensure => 'installed', provider => 'snap', install_options => [ 'classic' ] }

What are you seeing

On the target machine puppet fails to run and doesn't recognize snap as being active.

The logs in foreman show

resource: /Stage[main]/Profile::Base::Packages/Package[tree] message:Provider snap is not functional on this host

What behaviour did you expect instead

That the tree snap would be installed on the target system

Output log

Any additional information you'd like to impart

Not sure if the fix is correct, in order to progress I needed to change the provider from "puppet_gem" to "gem"

` service { 'snapd': ensure => $service_ensure, enable => $service_enable, require => Package['snapd'], }

-> package { 'net_http_unix':
  ensure   => $net_http_unix_ensure,
  provider => "gem",
}

`

[root-expert]

Hello @peterwoj, this seems to be related to the version of the agent you are using. You should use the AIO packages from Puppet instead of the distro packages.

[peterwoj]

@root-expert will give it a look and comment back early next week, thanks for the reply