Puppet manifest has a file declaration that somehow duplicates itself

Question

Given the confusing error message:

err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Duplicate declaration: File[/etc/logstas

Answer 1

If you copy an existing file within your manifests directory to another name (for reference purposes) but keep the ".pp" suffix, Puppet will try to include it again and will complain about the duplication. Try renaming to ".pp_OLD"