Puppet users - Dec 2013 - Provider must have features 'manages_symlinks' to set 'ensure' to 'link' shouldn't happen on Linux?

Hey all,

Done a bit of googling for this and haven't seen it yet.

I have one of about 120 nodes running the puppetlabs repo version 3.4.1 on 
CentOS 6 that has inexplicably started throwing this:

Error: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter ensure failed on 
File[/etc/localtime]: Provider must have features 'manages_symlinks' to
set
'ensure' to 'link' at
/etc/puppet/manifests/nodes/basenode.pp:198
Wrapped exception:
Provider must have features 'manages_symlinks' to set 'ensure'
to 'link'

There are four nodes in totality that have the same node definition as this 
one, and the other 3 briefly had the same error but upgrading from 3.4.0 to 
3.4.1 resolved it. Nevertheless the resource in question is inherited by 
every node so I'm at a loss what would break.

The resource is innocuous:

    file { "/etc/localtime":
        ensure  => link,
        target  => "/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London",
    }

FWIW SELinux is disabled and if I comment this resource out it merely fails 
on the next ensure => link it comes across.

Debugging offers no clues either that I can see. These manifests haven't 
changed in several months and first broke on the following update (enforced 
by puppet):

Dec 20 04:36:53 nodename puppet-agent[22052]: 
(/Stage[main]/Puppet::Agent/Package[puppet]/ensure) ensure changed 
'3.3.2-1.el6' to '0:3.4.0-1.el6'

but as I say even with the official 3.4.1 it's falling flat on its face. 
Stopping the daemon, blowing away /var/lib/puppet and reassociating it with 
the master and the problem still persists.

Any suggested next steps? Thoughts gratefully appreciated!

Cheers,

Steph

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