When using puppet during kickstart in a chroot environment runlevel returns unknown

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

In RHEL6U2 kickstart chroot environment, /sbin/runlevel command always returns 'unknown' (/var/run/utmp is 0 bytes in chroot), which is causing a problem with puppet runs when puppet tries to manage all kinds of redhat services.

If we replace /sbin/runlevel with a shell script "echo N 3" or replace /var/run/utmp file from an up and running RHEL6 server, to make runlevel command happy, then things are fine.

Is this a known issue / bug?

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
All RHEL environments work this way, but this was validated on RHEL6 environment

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