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Just started running into errors that look like this:
```preparing urn:pulumi:sandbox::irisvr-infra::aws:s3/bucket:Bucket::prospect-releases's old property state: expected string or JSON map; got &lt;nil&gt;```

I've not seen this error before.

What steps did you do prior to hitting this?

hard to put my finger on - which is terrible I know.
I had just upgraded the `@pulumi/aws` module to 2.3.0 from 2.2.0 -but I'm not convinced that's it. certainly rolling it back hasn't fixed anything

I was in the middle of reorganizing my repository - moving some resources around, but without renaming anything, and suddenly started hitting this error.

i've tried completely removing the s3 bucket in question from state and 'importing' it, but I get the same error

If you're able to reproduce this consistently, would you mind opening an issue at <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/new> with the code that reproduces it?

yup - it's something about the current state of the bucket.  with a fresh pure new project I can 'get' the bucket, but attempting to import it to take full control gives me the error again

<https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/4592>