chocolatey : version sometimes detected as '0'

Sometimes a Puppet run fails with the following error:

Failed to apply catalog: Validation of Chocolateysource[chocolatey] failed: Chocolatey version must be '0.9.9.0' to manage configuration values with Puppet. Detected '0' as your version. Please upgrade Chocolatey to use this resource.

The next Puppet run the error is gone. Chocolatey version 0.10.3 is installed.

Desired Behavior:

choco.exe -v should always return the version.

Actual Behavior:

Eventviewer shows this at the time of failed puppet run:
Application: choco.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception
Stack:
at shim.ShimProgram.Main(System.String[])