Puppet run on clients registered with Red Hat Satellite 6 fails with Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, 'new' Value of type Undef cannot be converted to Integer

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6

Issue

• Below error is observed on clients registered with Satellite while running puppet agent -t command:

  root@client var]# puppet agent -t
  Info: Using configured environment 'development'
  Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
  Info: Retrieving plugin
  Info: Retrieving locales
  Info: Loading facts
  Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on SERVER: Server Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Resource Statement,  Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, 'new' Value of type Undef cannot be converted to Integer (file: /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/development/modules/ntp/manifests/init.pp, line: 62, column: 6) on node client.example.com
  Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
  Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run
  

Resolution

• Install the redhat-lsb-core package on client machine which provides the lsbmajdistrelease fact being used by NTP module.

For more KB articles/solutions related to Red Hat Satellite 6.x Puppet Issues, please refer to the Red Hat Satellite Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x Puppet Issues

Root Cause

• The redhat-lsb-core package is missing on client machine which provides lsbmajdistrelease fact.

Diagnostic Steps

• The NTP puppet module being used is getting failed at following line as mentioned in error: if(Integer($lsbmajdistrelease) < 8 )

• Run below command on the client to check if lsbmajdistrelease is empty:

  # facter lsbmajdistrelease
  # puppet facts | grep lsbmajdistrelease
  

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