Chef omnibus installer on CentOS broken

This bug was originally filed in Launchpad as [LP: #1385860](https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1385860)

Launchpad details

affected_projects = []

assignee = None

assignee_name = None

date_closed = None

date_created = 2014-10-26T12:15:31.782077+00:00

date_fix_committed = None

date_fix_released = None

id = 1385860

importance = medium

is_complete = False

lp_url = https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1385860

milestone = None

owner = 4-contact-t

owner_name = Jura Berg

private = False

status = confirmed

submitter = 4-contact-t

submitter_name = Jura Berg

tags = ['centos', 'chef']

duplicates = []

_Launchpad user **Jura Berg(4-contact-t)** wrote on 2014-10-26T12:15:31.782077+00:00_

Omnibus installer fails on CentOS:

- util.py[WARNING]: Running cc_chef () failed
- cloud-init[WARNING]: Ran cc_chef but it failed!

The reason is that /var/run/chef is symlink to /run/chef and ensure_dir() fails on selinux.restorecon(). Quick fix would be:

--- cloud-init-0.7.6/cloudinit/util.py 2014-10-10 18:26:25.000000000 +0300
+++ /root/cloud-init-0.7.6/cloudinit/util.py 2014-10-26 14:16:01.022089307 +0200
@@ -160,7 +160,10 @@

         LOG.debug("Restoring selinux mode for %s (recursive=%s)",
                   path, self.recursive)
- self.selinux.restorecon(path, recursive=self.recursive)
+ try:
+ self.selinux.restorecon(path, recursive=self.recursive)
+ except OSError:
+ return

Start in cloudinit/util.py at ensure_dir and trace its use from cloudinit.config.cc_chef. Reproduce the CentOS Chef omnibus installer failure and verify that the cc_chef path completes successfully when /var/run/chef is a symlink and SELinux restoration raises OSError.

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