[chef] Windows execute resource, not_if and exit code 42

[Daniel Oliver < >]

Hi chefs,

 

I’ve  been putting off the upgrade to 0.10 for a while now because things broke horribly when I first tried 0.10 on Windows.  Trying 0.10.6-beta2, things seem to have changed for the worse – I can’t even complete a Chef run now...

 

It appears that Windows commands executed with ShellOut are regularly returning exit code 42 on success.  I can work around this for the main “execute” blocks by specifying the return code, but for those protected with “not_if”, commands get run that shouldn’t be as the check performed is exit_code!=0.  For example, the following old block is near the top of my run list (I realise that this could be replaced with a user block):

 

execute “net user chef /ADD /MOREHERE” do

  not_if “net user chef”

end

 

What happens is:

DEBUG: Executing net user chef

DEBUG: STDOUT:

<output from command>

DEBUG: Ran net user chef returned 42

<the net user chef /ADD /MOREHERE” command then gets run>

 

When I run “net user chef” manually, I get return code 0.

 

If I use chef 0.9.18, this works without any problems.  With 0.10.0, chef ran ok but I had some problems with search results appearing and vanishing a few seconds later on the server.

Is there a way to use “not_if” in a straightforward fashion in Windows?

 

Dan.

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