Jira (FACT-3181) Facter returns a blank field instead of indicating an error

[Andrew LeStrange (Jira)]

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Andrew LeStrange created an issue   Facter / FACT-3181 Facter returns a blank field instead of indicating an error Issue Type: Improvement Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2023/02/05 9:06 PM Due Date: 2023/02/28 Priority: Normal Reporter: Andrew LeStrange A customer (Australian National University) is using PE to automate patching on Ubuntu 20.04. Their issue was that facts "apt_package_security_updates and apt_package_updates" were empty instead of detailing the packages that required updating, hence no patches were being applied. It turns out that the customer had a broken package. However facter returned a blank. The customer maintains that facter should at least highlight an error so that it can be investigated. The support case that references this is #50815 The apt package runs the following apt command apt-get -s -o Debug::NoLocking=true upgrade The customer's output is listed below ....... root@RSB-061244:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# /usr/bin/apt-get -s -o Debug::NoLocking=true upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libnvidia-compute-515-server : Breaks: libnvidia-compute-515-server:i386 (!= 515.65.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) but 515.86.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 is to be installed libnvidia-compute-515-server:i386 : Breaks: libnvidia-compute-515-server (!= 515.86.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.2) but 515.65.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 is to be installed libnvidia-decode-515-server : Breaks: libnvidia-decode-515-server:i386 (!= 515.65.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) but 515.86.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 is to be installed libnvidia-decode-515-server:i386 : Breaks: libnvidia-decode-515-server (!= 515.86.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.2) but 515.65.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 is to be installed libnvidia-encode-515-server : Breaks: libnvidia-encode-515-server:i386 (!= 515.65.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) but 515.86.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 is to be installed libnvidia-encode-515-server:i386 : Breaks: libnvidia-encode-515-server (!= 515.86.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.2) but 515.65.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 is to be installed libnvidia-fbc1-515-server : Breaks: libnvidia-fbc1-515-server:i386 (!= 515.65.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) but 515.86.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 is to be installed libnvidia-fbc1-515-server:i386 : Breaks: libnvidia-fbc1-515-server (!= 515.86.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.2) but 515.65.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 is to be installed libnvidia-gl-515-server : Breaks: libnvidia-gl-515-server:i386 (!= 515.65.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) but 515.86.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 is to be installed libnvidia-gl-515-server:i386 : Breaks: libnvidia-gl-515-server (!= 515.86.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.2) but 515.65.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 is to be installed E: Broken packages Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.11#820011-sha1:0629dd8) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-bugs/JIRA.480708.1675659975000.7765.1675660020038%40Atlassian.JIRA.