Bounce the yum helper a few more times during the run

Really shouldn't but it cleans up a file descriptor leak on
RHEL6 so that we can ship.

Signed-off-by: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/spec/functional/resource/yum_package_spec.rb b/spec/functional/resource/yum_package_spec.rb
index 7c5fc28fdf..5a9dbd44bc 100644
--- a/spec/functional/resource/yum_package_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/functional/resource/yum_package_spec.rb
@@ -43,10 +43,16 @@ describe Chef::Resource::YumPackage, :requires_root, external: exclude_test do
     expect(shell_out("rpm -q --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' chef_rpm").stdout.chomp).to match(version)
   end
 
-  before(:all) do
+  before(:suite) do
     shell_out!("yum -y install yum-utils")
   end
 
+  # XXX: this is necessary for RHEL6 due to a file descriptor leak so we need to bounce the
+  # python helper periodically before every top level context to get more FDs.
+  before(:all) do
+    Chef::Provider::Package::Yum::PythonHelper.instance.restart
+  end
+
   before(:each) do
     # force errors to fail and not retry
     ENV["YUM_HELPER_NO_RETRIES"] = "true"