Skipping because provider prefetch failed

[andryua]

Describe the Bug

After update puppet agent to 8.10.0 i have errors wit chocolatey provider (8.7.0 - working)

Steps to Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:
in powershell or cmd running command
puppet agent -t

Environment

• Version 8.10.0
• Platform Windows 10 or 11

Output:

Debug: Prefetching windows resources for chocolateyfeature
Debug: Gathering features from 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\config\chocolatey.config'.
Error: Could not prefetch chocolateyfeature provider 'windows': Malformed XML: Content at the start of the document (got '')
Line: 1
Position: 47
Last 80 unconsumed characters:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
Warning: /Stage[main]/Windows::Chocolatey/Chocolateyfeature[allowEmptyChecksums]: Skipping because provider prefetch failed
Debug: /Stage[main]/Windows::Chocolatey/Chocolateyfeature[allowEmptyChecksums]: Resource is being skipped, unscheduling all events
Debug: Prefetching windows resources for chocolateyconfig
Debug: Gathering sources from 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\config\chocolatey.config'.
Error: Could not prefetch chocolateyconfig provider 'windows': Malformed XML: Content at the start of the document (got '')
Line: 1
Position: 47
Last 80 unconsumed characters:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
Warning: /Stage[main]/Windows::Chocolatey/Chocolateyconfig[cachelocation]: Skipping because provider prefetch failed
Debug: /Stage[main]/Windows::Chocolatey/Chocolateyconfig[cachelocation]: Resource is being skipped, unscheduling all events
Debug: Prefetching windows resources for chocolateysource
Debug: Gathering sources from 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\config\chocolatey.config'.
Line: 1
Position: 47
Last 80 unconsumed characters:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
Warning: /Stage[main]/Windows::Chocolatey/Chocolateysource[chocolatey]: Skipping because provider prefetch failed
Debug: /Stage[main]/Windows::Chocolatey/Chocolateysource[chocolatey]: Resource is being skipped, unscheduling all events
Warning: /Stage[main]/Windows::Chocolatey/Chocolateysource[stable]: Skipping because provider prefetch failed
Debug: /Stage[main]/Windows::Chocolatey/Chocolateysource[stable]: Resource is being skipped, unscheduling all events
Warning: /Stage[main]/Windows::Chocolatey/Chocolateysource[testing]: Skipping because provider prefetch failed
Debug: /Stage[main]/Windows::Chocolatey/Chocolateysource[testing]: Resource is being skipped, unscheduling all events
Debug: Class[Windows::Chocolatey]: Resource is being skipped, unscheduling all events

[mhashizume]

Thank you for reporting this @andryua , I saw you also opened an issue in the Chocolatey module. We will chat with the modules team and see if we can determine where the issue lies.