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

I faced with the same kind of issue when I used create_resource().

This error occurs when you want to run 'file{}' block several times like a loop.

When we are creating a multiple copies of a 'file{}' block, we have to make sure that the NAME OF THE FILE BLOCK is unique, i.e.,

file { "NAME OF THE FILE BLOCK":.....}

If the same name repeats, the above error is raised.

In your case, some value of "${logstash::params::config_dir}" must have been repeated twice.