The rubygem-sqlite3-ruby package in epel causes puppet's sqlite integration to break. http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2815 has the info on the puppet side and the comment at https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/99-sqlite-connection-failing#ticket-99-22 has the fix
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