chef-solo provision fails on ubuntu after downloading partial installer

[ghost]

This issue was originally opened by @seven10builder as hashicorp/packer#5796. It was migrated here as a result of the Packer plugin split. The original body of the issue is below.

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when using the chef-solo provisioner and the vsphere builder (from here), I get a consistent error when trying to download the chef installer on the newly spun up host. The error is always the same:
vsphere: curl: (23) Failed writing body (1755 != 2759)
The log gist (see below) contains the greater body of the error, but it appears it is encountering an error when writing to stderr.

• Packer version: 1.1.3

• Host platform: Ubuntu 16.04

• Debug log output from PACKER_LOG=1 packer build template.json:
  https://gist.github.com/seven10builder/cbb11dafddf2d51ee9977feeb35d16da

• The simplest example template and scripts needed to reproduce the bug.
  in previous gist.

[nywilken]

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