Error: Could not autoload puppet/provider/vc_*/default: undefined method `path' for nil:NilClass

[cbitter78]

When using the vcenter plugin with a puppet master we get this error:

Error: Could not autoload puppet/provider/vc_folder/default: undefined method path' for nil:NilClass Error: Could not autoload puppet/type/vc_folder: Could not autoload puppet/provider/vc_folder/default: undefined methodpath' for nil:NilClass
Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Could not intern from text/pson: Could not autoload puppet/type/vc_folder: Could not autoload puppet/provider/vc_folder/default: undefined method `path' for nil:NilClass
Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog

Its not only vc_folder, I have tried vc_host and vc_datacenter all have the same issue.

My first step was to install the rbvmomi (1.6.0.z1) gem on the puppet master. That had no effect on this issue.

I then tried to run puppet locally using puppet apply without a puppet master. That worked. (I put the modules and manifests in /etc/puppet/) After this success I tried running puppet with the puppet master and it magically started working ;)

I then removed the modules under /etc/puppet/modules/* that I put there so I could try puppet apply and then ran puppet using my puppet master and it Failed with the same error. This suggests a dependency that is not being provided via the manifest sent from the puppet master.

I narrowed it down to the vmware_lib module being required on the host. After I restored that single module to /etc/puppet/modules/vmware_lib then used the puppet master, it worked.

This is my manifest:

node default {' {
  include 'vcenter::package'
  class {'testing_vmware':}
}

This is the calls

class testing_vmware {

  transport { 'vcenter':
      username => 'esxpuppet',
      password => '**********!',
      server   => 'vcenter-lab-1d.testing.lab',
      options  => { 'insecure' => true }
  }

  vc_folder { 'folder_test':
    path => '/Lab02/test1',
    ensure    => present,
    transport => Transport['vcenter'],
  }
}

Thanks for your help!