libarchive_file resource fails to extract on RHEL7/CentOS7

[snkutlu]

Cookbook version

libarchive 2.1.0

Chef-client version

v14.10.9

Platform Details

RHEL 7 / CentOS 7

Scenario:

When trying to extract a ZIP file with libarchive_file resource, it fails with following errors:

[2019-01-29T15:32:56+00:00] FATAL: LoadError: Could not open library 'libarchive.so.13': /lib64/liblzma.so.5: version `XZ_5.2' not found (required by /opt/chef/embedded/lib/libarchive.so.13).
Could not open library 'libarchive.13': libarchive.13: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
Could not open library 'libarchive.13.so': libarchive.13.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
Could not open library 'libarchive-13': libarchive-13: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
Could not open library 'libarchive-13.so': libarchive-13.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
Could not open library 'libarchive.so': /lib64/liblzma.so.5: version `XZ_5.2' not found (required by /opt/chef/embedded/lib/libarchive.so).
Could not open library 'libarchive': libarchive: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
Could not open library 'archive': archive: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Chef has libarchive.so.13.3.3 installed in /opt/chef/embedded/lib directory.

ls -la /opt/chef/embedded/lib/libarchive.so*
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      20 Jan 29 15:32 /opt/chef/embedded/lib/libarchive.so -> libarchive.so.13.3.3
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      20 Jan 29 15:32 /opt/chef/embedded/lib/libarchive.so.13 -> libarchive.so.13.3.3
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  977008 Dec 20 04:16 /opt/chef/embedded/lib/libarchive.so.13.3.3

If I delete libarchive.so* from that directory then it starts to use OS version (libarchive.13.1.2) and everything starts to work as expected

Steps to Reproduce:

• Include libarchive in your metadata.rb
• Code a resource in your recipe as follows:

libarchive_file 'Extract zip file' do
  path '/path/to/your/zipfile.zip'
  extract_to '/some/real/path'
  action :extract
end

• Cook

Expected Result:

ZIP file should be extracted to given path and chef-client run finished successfully

Actual Result:

Chef-client run fails with the above error and ZIP file is not extracted

[ashley-abbott]

I've added gem 'ffi-libarchive' into my wrapper cookbook's Gemfile and convergence succeeds, same client version and cookbook version

[arielrolfo]

facing exactly same issue here, none of the above workarounds worked for me.