Failure running chef update exit code 255

[afiune]

Version:

Latest

Environment:

MacOS (potentially Windows as well but need to verify)

Scenario:

We have an issue where running chef update exits the command with the output:

$ chef update
Attributes already up to date
Building policy frontend
Expanded run list: recipe[base], recipe[frontend], recipe[sigsci], recipe[audit]
Caching Cookbooks...
Installing base            1.0.19
[1]    76153 killed     chef update

Steps to Reproduce:

TBA

Expected Result:

Regenerate the Policyfile.lock.json with the updated cookbooks/policies.

Actual Result:

The command is killed/exits with error code 255.

Reported by @jtimberman @tmonk42

[jtimberman]

Given a Policyfile.rb:

name "app"
default_source :supermarket

run_list "apache2"

And given the following chef-workstation version:

% chef -v  
Chef Workstation version: 0.15.10
Chef Infra Client version: 15.7.32
Chef InSpec version: 4.18.51
Chef CLI version: 2.0.0
Test Kitchen version: 2.3.4
Cookstyle version: 5.20.0

Running chef install yields:

% chef install
Building policy app
Expanded run list: recipe[apache2]
Caching Cookbooks...
Installing apache2 8.0.2
% echo $?
255