sysctl provider fails if multiple instances of value are declared in sysctl.conf

[cwells]

[root@linstageechodb2 ~]# sysctl -n net.core.wmem_max
16777216

[root@linstageechodb2 ~]# grep net.core.wmem_max /etc/sysctl.conf 
net.core.wmem_max=16777216
net.core.wmem_max=17476000

Puppet run results in the following errors:

Error: undefined method `gsub' for nil:NilClass
Error: /Stage[main]/Profile::Postgres::Kernel/Sysctl[net.core.rmem_max]/value: change from  to 16777216 failed: undefined method `gsub' for nil:NilClass

This failure appears in type/sysctl.rb in the equal method, which in turn is called from the insync? method. The parameter is will be nil if there are multiple declarations of a value in sysctl.conf. Unfortunately it's not clear to me how this particular value is populated, so my debugging has come to its end.

[raphink]

What do you expect should happen? Should it remove the duplicate entry and update the first one? or last one?

[raphink]

Migrated to voxpupuli/puppet-augeasproviders_sysctl#1