Chef::Exceptions::Exec: yum_package[xinetd] (os-hardening::yum line 50)

[atomic111]

I run Centos 6.5. If i run the os-hardening the first time, it fails with the following error. But the second chef run is successful. I can provide you the virtual machine for testing.

chef-stacktrace ouput:

Generated at 2014-10-21 14:40:56 +0200
Chef::Exceptions::Exec: yum_package[xinetd] (os-hardening::yum line 50) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::Exec:  returned 1, expected 0
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:158:in `handle_command_failures'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/provider/package/yum.rb:1021:in `yum_command'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/provider/package/yum.rb:1177:in `remove_package'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/provider/package/yum.rb:1188:in `purge_package'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/provider/package.rb:129:in `block in action_purge'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/mixin/why_run.rb:52:in `call'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/mixin/why_run.rb:52:in `add_action'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/provider.rb:156:in `converge_by'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/provider/package.rb:128:in `action_purge'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/provider.rb:121:in `run_action'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/resource.rb:648:in `run_action'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/runner.rb:49:in `run_action'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/runner.rb:81:in `block (2 levels) in converge'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/runner.rb:81:in `each'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/runner.rb:81:in `block in converge'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:98:in `block in execute_each_resource'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:in `call'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:116:in `call_iterator_block'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:85:in `step'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:104:in `iterate'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/resource_collection/stepable_iterator.rb:55:in `each_with_index'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:96:in `execute_each_resource'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/runner.rb:80:in `converge'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/client.rb:345:in `converge'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/client.rb:431:in `do_run'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/client.rb:213:in `block in run'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/client.rb:207:in `fork'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/client.rb:207:in `run'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/application.rb:236:in `run_chef_client'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/application/solo.rb:226:in `block in run_application'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/application/solo.rb:218:in `loop'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/application/solo.rb:218:in `run_application'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/lib/chef/application.rb:55:in `run'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4/bin/chef-solo:25:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/bin/chef-solo:23:in `load'
/usr/bin/chef-solo:23:in `<main>'# 

[arlimus]

Thank you for reporting!

Not reproducible in tests, neither in kitchen nor with vagrant separately. I'll run it with your image and we'll see what's going on. Semantically the configuration looks (and works) correct, let's see what causes it.

[arlimus]

Managed to reproduce it with your image, thanks for that!

As it turns out, hardening and chef both work correctly: The package "xinetd" is called to be purged if it exists. In case of this image, it is installed, so the uninstall runs. For the release of chef we're using here, it is this, or translated:

yum -d0 -e0 -y remove xinetd.x86_64

When I run this manually on the box, I get this:

So this is an uninstall error which happens in CentOS. There isn't much we can do on our end, unfortunately. The package removal still works as advertised and the error only appears during the first run and is gone during all other runs.