[chef] Not detecting service start failure

[Yoshi Spendiff < >]

Hi,

I'm having trouble understanding why Chef isn't detecting that a service is failing to start. I'm attempting to get Pound (proxy) to work. The package installs fine and I have a service declaration that says the service is started when it's not. I'm running via chef solo at the moment (it's a vagrant box) and running a chef-solo run with debug logging produces the following:

[2015-05-12T01:45:50+00:00] DEBUG: service[pound] you have specified a status command, running..
pound is stopped
pound              0:off    1:off    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
Starting Pound: starting...
[FAILED]
Starting Pound: starting...
[FAILED]
Starting Pound: starting...
[FAILED]
Starting Pound: starting...
[FAILED]
Starting Pound: starting...
[FAILED]
[2015-05-12T01:45:52+00:00] INFO: service[pound] started
- start service service[pound]

This are my recipe declaration:
# Install pound and deploy configuration file from template
package 'Pound' do
  options '--enablerepo=epel'
end

template '/etc/pound.cfg' do
  source 'pound.cfg.erb'
  mode 0644
end

service 'pound' do
  supports :restart => false, :reload => false, :status => true
  action [:start, :enable]
end

I have tried using the init_command and status_command options, as well as disabling and enabling the supports :status => true option

If I put the above service declaration into a test file and run it with chef-apply then it fails as it should:
[2015-05-12T01:56:28+00:00] FATAL: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed: service[pound] ((chef-apply cookbook)::(chef-apply recipe) line 5) had an error: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed: Expected process to exit with [0], but received '1'
---- Begin output of /sbin/service pound start ----
STDOUT: Starting Pound: [FAILED]
STDERR: starting...
---- End output of /sbin/service pound start ----
Ran /sbin/service pound start returned 1

The pound init script is set up to run correctly, a non-zero exit code is returned on unsuccessful start of pound.

There are no processes called pound running on the system and there are no other service declarations called pound in all of my cookbooks.

What am I missing?

Cheers

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Yoshi Spendiff

Ops Engineer

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