When couchbase deb package download fail, it will result in the file as empty file.

[dennyzhang]

If Chef update fail during the package download of "/var/chef/cache/couchbase-server-community_3.0.0-ubuntu12.04_amd64.deb". The file will end up with empty size.

Then retry chef update won't download the package again and run into below error messages.

[2015-06-13T05:41:24+00:00] INFO: Processing dpkg_package[/var/chef/cache/couchbase-server-community_3.0.0-ubuntu12.04_amd64.deb] action install (couchbase::server line 55)
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[31mError executing action `install` on resource 'dpkg_package[/var/chef/cache/couchbase-server-community_3.0.0-ubuntu12.04_amd64.deb]'[0m
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[0mChef::Exceptions::Package[0m
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dpkg failed - <Mixlib::ShellOut#44214900: command: 'dpkg -s /var/chef/cache/couchbase-server-community_3.0.0-ubuntu12.04_amd64.deb' process_status: #<Process::Status: pid 8207 exit 2> stdout: '' stderr: 'dpkg-query: error: --status needs a valid package name but '/var/chef/cache/couchbase-server-community_3.0.0-ubuntu12.04_amd64.deb' is not: illegal package name in specifier '/var/chef/cache/couchbase-server-community_3.0.0-ubuntu12.04_amd64.deb': must start with an alphanumeric character
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[0mUse --help for help about querying packages.' child_pid: 8207 environment: {"LC_ALL"=>"C.UTF-8", "LANGUAGE"=>"C.UTF-8", "LANG"=>"C.UTF-8"} timeout: 600 user: group: working_dir: >![0m
[0mResource Declaration:[0m

[unhuman]

I think this is a "feature" of Chef itself. Once a resource gets cached, Chef assumes it's good.