Null value in "/opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d/package_updates.json"

[papseddy]

Hi,

After few run of cron, /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/puppet package updates --render-as json command put NULL in "/opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d/package_updates.json" file and after then whenever puppet agent runs it show error.

[root@agent-2 ~]# puppet agent -t
Error: Facter: error while processing "/opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d/package_updates.json" for external facts: The document root must not follow by other values.
Info: Using configured environment 'production'
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Retrieving locales
Info: Loading facts
Error: Facter: error while processing "/opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d/package_updates.json" for external facts: The document root must not follow by other values.
Info: Caching catalog for agent-2.example.com
Info: Applying configuration version '1520410771'
Notice: /Stage[main]/Package_updates/Exec[package_updates]/returns: executed successfully
Notice: Applied catalog in 110.52 seconds

Is this any problem or i am doing something wrong.

[gordonmessmer]

I think this patch fixes the problem:
#28