Puppet server fails to start after a new installation

Question

I had a puppet server 6.7 installed on ubuntu 18.04. It was working fine. I tried uninstalling it using the following commands:

sudo apt-get remove puppetmaster-common
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove puppetmaster-common
sudo apt-get purge puppetmaster-common
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove puppetmaster-common


sudo apt-get remove puppet
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove puppet
sudo apt-get purge puppet
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove puppet

I installed it again, but now it stopped working the logs are showing a lot of errors:

Could not autoload puppet/type/user: Could not autoload puppet/provider/user/directoryservice: cannot load such file
Could not autoload puppet/provider/user/directoryservice: cannot load such file -- plist
Could not autoload puppet/type/user: Could not autoload puppet/provider/user/directoryservice: cannot load such file
Could not create resources for managing Puppet's files and directories in sections [:main, :master, :ssl, :metrics]
Could not prepare for execution: Could not create resources for managing Puppet's files and directories in sections

What's the issue? How can i start it again?

Answer 1

Try this:

Remove the existing apt repository by manually deleting the entries in

/etc/apt/sources.list.d

Remove puppetlabls-pc1.list, puppet.list, puppet.save, all entries related to puppet and 

then run the following command:

sudo apt-get update

Install puppet master once again without appending any additional apt repos

sudo apt-get -y install puppetmaster

This might be because you might be using wrong apt source.

Hope this helps!