Thanks Denmat, It was probably crosstalk between gems and RPMs. Turns out that the rubygems RPM was missing some files. Likely cause was accidentally installing and uninstalling rubygems via non-rpm. Reinstalling the RPM fixed the problem. For the benefit of others, here's how we found the problem.
rpm -V <packages> - this checks for pieces missing from the rpm rpm -e --nodeps <package> - this removes the offending package and ignores the dependencies yum install <package> - this reinstalls the package AND rebuilds the dependency tree -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.