puppet 8.x not starting service properly on Windows [2019/2022]

[Rich Siegel]

I am having an issue, where any version of puppet 8 refuses to start "most" times using service manager.  I am installing puppet manually from msi, quietly, or through internal choco packages.  It does not matter.

If I run puppet agent interactively, then puppet runs fine on version 8, in fact vastly superior to 7 in terms of performance.

If I uninstall puppet 8 and fall back to ANY version of puppet 7.x the puppet service starts properly.

I do not have any ability to get logs beyond:

The Puppet Agent service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

I am really not sure how to further troubleshoot this.  My hunch tells me, that something is broken within ruby 3.2, as it doesn't look like anything material changed in daemon.rb.

I have opened up an issue here- [not sure if this is the proper] given all the perforce changes in issue tracking.   https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-agent/issues/2459

Thank you for all your help in advance!

Rich [rismoney]