James T McBride: Upgrading to Puppet Enterprise Master of Masters to 5.5.17 (2018.1.11), the Windows clients can't find cmd.exe

PROBLEM:

Upgrading to Puppet Enterprise Master of Masters to 5.5.17 (2018.1.11), the Windows clients can't find cmd.exe

PS C:\Windows\system32> puppet agent -t

Info: Using configured environment 'production'

Info: Retrieving pluginfacts

Info: Retrieving plugin

Info: Retrieving locales

Info: Loading facts

Info: Caching catalog for ntcfsxxaps0147.usda.net

Info: Applying configuration version '1574901148'

Error: Could not find command 'C:\Users\pmcbrj01\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe'

Error: /Stage[main]/Puppet_agent::Install::Windows/Exec[install_puppet.ps1]/returns: change from 'notrun' to ['0'] faile

d: Could not find command 'C:\Users\pmcbrj01\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' (corrective)

Notice: /Stage[main]/Puppet_agent::Install::Windows/Exec[fix inheritable SYSTEM perms]: Dependency Exec[install_puppet.p

s1] has failures: true

Warning: /Stage[main]/Puppet_agent::Install::Windows/Exec[fix inheritable SYSTEM perms]: Skipping because of failed depe

ndencies

Notice: Applied catalog in 0.54 seconds

PS C:\Windows\system32> puppet agent --version

5.5.16

SOULTION:

Wait a little while to let the agent upgrade

PS C:\Windows\system32> puppet agent --version

5.5.17

…then try again