Cannot run TestKitchen on Ubuntu 16.04

[ephracis]

Here's my .kitchen.yml:

---
driver:
  name: vagrant

provisioner:
  name: chef_zero

platforms:
  - name: ubuntu-16.04

suites:
  - name: default
    run_list:
    attributes:

And here's the result from kitchen test:

       Installing chef 
       installing with dpkg...
       dpkg: error: dpkg status database is locked by another process
       Installation failed
       Version: 

       Please file a Bug Report at https://github.com/chef/omnitruck/issues/new
       Alternatively, feel free to open a Support Ticket at https://www.chef.io/support/tickets
       More Chef support resources can be found at https://www.chef.io/support

       Please include as many details about the problem as possible i.e., how to reproduce
       the problem (if possible), type of the Operating System and its version, etc.,
       and any other relevant details that might help us with troubleshooting.

>>>>>> Converge failed on instance <default-ubuntu-1604>.
>>>>>> Please see .kitchen/logs/default-ubuntu-1604.log for more details
>>>>>> ------Exception-------
>>>>>> Class: Kitchen::ActionFailed
>>>>>> Message: SSH exited (1) for command: [sudo -E sh -c '

chef_omnibus_root="/opt/chef"
chef_omnibus_url="https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.sh"
install_flags=""
pretty_version="install only if missing"
sudo_sh="sudo -E sh"
version="true"

tmp_stderr="/tmp/stderr";

# capture_tmp_stderr SOURCE
capture_tmp_stderr() {
  # spool up $tmp_stderr from all the commands we called
  if test -f "$tmp_stderr"; then
    output="`cat $tmp_stderr`";
    stderr_results="${stderr_results}\nSTDERR from $1:\n\n${output}\n";
    rm $tmp_stderr;
  fi
}

# do_curl URL FILENAME
do_curl() {
  echo "Trying curl...";
  curl -sL -D "$tmp_stderr" "$1" > "$2";
  ec=$?;
  # check for 404
  grep "404 Not Found" "$tmp_stderr" 2>&1 >/dev/null;
  if test $? -eq 0; then
    http_404_error "$1";
  fi

  # check for bad return status or empty output
  if test $ec -ne 0 || test ! -s "$2"; then
    capture_tmp_stderr "curl";
    return 1;
  else
    echo "Download complete.";
    return 0;
  fi
}

# do_download URL FILENAME
do_download() {
  echo "Downloading ${1} to file ${2}";

  exists wget;
  if test $? -eq 0; then
    do_wget "$1" "$2" && return 0;
  fi

  exists curl;
  if test $? -eq 0; then
    do_curl "$1" "$2" && return 0;
  fi

  exists fetch;
  if test $? -eq 0; then
    do_fetch "$1" "$2" && return 0;
  fi

  exists python;
  if test $? -eq 0; then
    do_python "$1" "$2" && return 0;
  fi

  exists perl;
  if test $? -eq 0; then
    do_perl "$1" "$2" && return 0;
  fi

  unable_to_download "$1" "$2";
}

# do_fetch URL FILENAME
do_fetch() {
  echo "Trying fetch...";
  fetch -o "$2" "$1" 2>"$tmp_stderr";
  ec=$?;
  # check for 404
  grep "Not Found" "$tmp_stderr" 2>&1 >/dev/null;
  if test $? -eq 0; then
    http_404_error "$1";
  fi

  # check for bad return status or empty output
  if test $ec -ne 0 || test ! -s "$2"; then
    capture_tmp_stderr "fetch";
    return 1;
  else
    echo "Download complete.";
    return 0;
  fi
}

# do_perl URL FILENAME
do_perl() {
  echo "Trying perl...";
  perl -e "use LWP::Simple; getprint(\$ARGV[0]);" "$1" > "$2" 2>"$tmp_stderr";
  ec=$?;
  # check for 404
  grep "404 Not Found" "$tmp_stderr" 2>&1 >/dev/null;
  if test $? -eq 0; then
    http_404_error "$1";
  fi

  # check for bad return status or empty output
  if test $ec -ne 0 || test ! -s "$2"; then
    capture_tmp_stderr "perl";
    return 1;
  else
    echo "Download complete.";
    return 0;
  fi
}

# do_python URL FILENAME
do_python() {
  echo "Trying python...";
  python -c "import sys,urllib2 ; sys.stdout.write(urllib2.urlopen(sys.argv[1]).read())" "$1" > "$2" 2>"$tmp_stderr";
  ec=$?;
  # check for 404
  grep "HTTP Error 404" "$tmp_stderr" 2>&1 >/dev/null;
  if test $? -eq 0; then
    http_404_error "$1";
  fi

  # check for bad return status or empty output
  if test $ec -ne 0 || test ! -s "$2"; then
    capture_tmp_stderr "python";
    return 1;
  else
    echo "Download complete.";
    return 0;
  fi
}

# do_wget URL FILENAME
do_wget() {
  echo "Trying wget...";
  wget -O "$2" "$1" 2>"$tmp_stderr";
  ec=$?;
  # check for 404
  grep "ERROR 404" "$tmp_stderr" 2>&1 >/dev/null;
  if test $? -eq 0; then
    http_404_error "$1";
  fi

  # check for bad return status or empty output
  if test $ec -ne 0 || test ! -s "$2"; then
    capture_tmp_stderr "wget";
    return 1;
  else
    echo "Download complete.";
    return 0;
  fi
}

# exists COMMAND
exists() {
  if command -v "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    return 0;
  else
    return 1;
  fi
}

# http_404_error URL
http_404_error() {
  echo ">>>>>> Downloading ${1} resulted in an HTTP/404, aborting";
  exit 40;
}

# should_update_chef ROOT VERSION
should_update_chef() {
  if test ! -d "$1"; then
    return 0;
  elif test "$2" = "true"; then
    return 1;
  elif test "$2" = "latest"; then
    return 0;
  fi

  if test -f "${1}/version-manifest.txt"; then
    chef_version="`head -n 1 ${1}/version-manifest.txt | cut -d \" \" -f 2`";
  else
    chef_version="`${1}/bin/chef-solo -v | cut -d \" \" -f 2`";
  fi

  echo "$chef_version" | grep "^${2}" 2>&1 >/dev/null;
  if test $? -eq 0; then
    return 1;
  else
    echo "${2}" | grep "^$chef_version" 2>&1 >/dev/null;
    if test $? -eq 0; then
      return 1;
    else
      return 0;
    fi
  fi
}

# unable_to_download URL FILE
unable_to_download() {
  echo "Unable to download $1 to $2, aborting";

  if test "x${stderr_results}" != "x"; then
    echo "\nDEBUG OUTPUT FOLLOWS:\n${stderr_results}";
  fi

  exit 10;
}

# main
main() {
  should_update_chef "$chef_omnibus_root" "$version"
  if test $? -eq 0; then
    echo "-----> Installing Chef Omnibus (${pretty_version})";

    # solaris 10 lacks recent enough credentials, so http url is used
    platform="`/usr/bin/uname -s 2>/dev/null`";
    platform_version="`/usr/bin/uname -r 2>/dev/null`";
    if test "x${platform}" = "xSunOS" && test "x${platform_version}" = "x5.10"; then
      chef_omnibus_url=`echo "$chef_omnibus_url" | sed -e "s/https/http/"`;
    fi

    do_download "$chef_omnibus_url" /tmp/install.sh;
    $sudo_sh /tmp/install.sh $install_flags;
  else
    echo "-----> Chef Omnibus installation detected (${pretty_version})";
  fi
}

# augment path in an attempt to find a download program
PATH="${PATH}:/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sfw/bin";
export PATH;

main
']
>>>>>> ----------------------

Info:

$ kitchen --version
Test Kitchen version 1.9.1
$ ruby --version
ruby 2.3.0p7 (2016-01-21 revision 53608) [x86_64-darwin15]
$ vagrant --version
Vagrant 1.8.1

[cheeseplus]

This is an issue with the base box chef/bento#609

[cheeseplus]

Also this is definitely the wrong repo to report, we should close this as there is an existing issue and this is wholly unrelated to omnitruck.

[schisamo]

Closing per @cheeseplus's comment.

[dankozlowski]

I'm late to this game, but this issue has been dogging me for weeks. The resolution I found was to use chef exec before all kitchen commands: chef exec kitchen converge, etc.