Resource type not found: Cron::Special

[Helkar]

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet: 7.26.0
• Ruby: 2.7.8
• Distribution: Ubuntu 18.04
• Module version: 4.1.0

How to reproduce (e.g Puppet code you use)

What are you seeing

An evaluation problem running puppet apply command

What behaviour did you expect instead

No evaluation error

Output log

Error: Evaluation Error: Resource type not found: Cron::Special (file: /etc/puppetlabs/code/modules/cron/manifests/job.pp, line: 30, column: 3)

Any additional information you'd like to impart

I have downgraded the module to 4.0.0 and the problem went away

[alexjfisher]

Odd. Is this repeatable? The Cron::Special type has been in the module for 6 years and I can't see anything related in the 4.1.0 changelog.

[Helkar]

Yes, every single time I executed the puppet apply it failed with the same reason. We are just defining some cron jobs, this is an example:

cron::job { 'Cronjob name':
command => '/usr/local/bin/<script>.sh',
user => 'root',
hour => '*',
minute => '0',
environment => ['MAILTO=""'],
require => File['/usr/local/bin/<script>.sh'],
}