[chef] template not creating file on Ubuntu 14

["Bannon, Steve" < >]

I have a simple motd rule that is failing on bootstrap because it says the 
file doesn’t exist.  The stack trace says “create” is true.  The rule works 
fine on ubuntu 12/13. Do you think this is a bug?

the code in question:

template "/etc/motd" do
        source "motd.erb"
        owner "root"
        group "root"
        mode "0644"
        force_unlink true
end