Fixing #380. The problem was that a method was sometimes returning :absent when I expected it to return nil when the group was not found. All fixed, yay.

git-svn-id: https://reductivelabs.com/svn/puppet/trunk@1960 980ebf18-57e1-0310-9a29-db15c13687c0

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/util/posix.rb b/lib/puppet/util/posix.rb
index 01c3e25aa..37ec298bb 100755
--- a/lib/puppet/util/posix.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/util/posix.rb
@@ -43,7 +43,12 @@ module Puppet::Util::POSIX
         
         if obj.provider
             begin
-                return obj.provider.send(field)
+                val = obj.provider.send(field)
+                if val == :absent
+                    return nil
+                else
+                    return val
+                end
             rescue => detail
                 if Puppet[:trace]
                     puts detail.backtrace