Terraform: AWS provider configuration not available in delete module

[johnrengelman]

Simliar to https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/1380#issuecomment-91244154

Steps

• Create a main.tf that declares and configures the aws provider.
• Add a module (declares only aws resources, not the provider)
• terraform apply - everything is created
• Remove the module from main.tf
• Run terraform plan

Result:

 $GOPATH/bin/terraform plan
There are warnings and/or errors related to your configuration. Please
fix these before continuing.

Errors:

  * provider.aws: "region": required field is not set

Tested using the following:

$GOPATH/bin/terraform --version
Terraform v0.4.1-dev (c0196d948d942a32a46fb9ef203076d3be134e4d)

[mitchellh]

Should be fixed!

[jaygorrell]

Is there already an open version of this bug? It seems to be happening again, if it was ever fixed.

[apeeters]

The bug seems to resurface in TF 0.7.

[hazim1093]

as @apeeters pointed out, we're facing the same bug again after upgrade to TF 0.7.
We're using nested modules and while destroying them, terraform asks to enter value for region

[pmoust]

Experiencing the same in TF v0.7.3

[mewm]

I experienced this suddenly today. I'm not sure exactly what did it, but after nuking .terraform folder and running terraform get my plan could execute

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