[chef] where does error output go?

[phil swenson < >]

I was trying to use the oracle-xe recipe and got this error on execution:

[2014-05-05T15:42:06+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out

Chef Client failed. 9 resources updated in 224.123914276 seconds

I looked at the stacktracke.out and the trace didn’t help at all.

I did see that the oracle xe recipe installs an oracle RPM via yum_package so I simply tried running the RPM directly using 

rpm -i /var/chef/cache/oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm

This revealed the problem:  /usr/bin/chef-solo:23:in `<main>' ~]# rpm -i /var/chef/cache/oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm

This system does not meet the minimum requirements for swap space.  Based on

the amount of physical memory available on the system, Oracle Database 11g

Express Edition requires 1992 MB of swap space. This system has 0 MB

of swap space.  Configure more swap space on the system and retry the

installation.

So my question:  does chef log this root cause error anywhere?  Am I missing something obvious?  This message was not output to the console and wasn’t in the tracelog. 

Thanks!

phil