Puppet agent fails collect packages for puppet "Cannot collect packages for Puppet::Type::package::ProviderYum provider; Failed to list packages"

[Ashwinkumar Kandasamy]

Hi all,

 In my puppet enterprise machine when ever i run the puppet agent -t command it shows below error,

 # puppet agent -t

Info: Using configured environment 'production'
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Retrieving locales
Info: Loading facts
Error: Cannot collect packages for Puppet::Type::ProviderYum provider; Failed to list packages
Info: Caching catalog for ,puppetmaster>
Info: Applying configuration version '1571212307'
Error: Could not prefetch package provider 'yum': Failed to list packages
Error: Failed to apply catalog: Failed to list packages

PE version -2019.0

[Josh Cooper]

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Try running "puppet resource package --param provider --debug" to see which yum command fails.

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Josh Cooper | Software Engineer

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[KevinR]

I sometimes have this issue on one particular node, the cause is that the Yum database gets corrupted on that node sometimes. I've built this Puppet Task to repair the database when it happens:

#!/bin/bash

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*

rpm --rebuilddb

yum clean all

yum check-update

if [ $? == 100 ]; then

  exit 0

fi