rbenv install 1.9.2-p290 (system) hanging about ruby_rbenv

[rymohr]

If I kill the process and run chef solo again it blows right through the place that it hung in the first try. Logging in I can verify the install worked just fine:

% rbenv versions
* 1.9.2-p290 (set by /usr/local/rbenv/version)

Not sure if it makes a difference but I'm invoking chef-solo remotely via:
ssh user@host "sudo chef-solo ..."

[vickrum]

Same problem here with 1.9.3-p0. Installation hung (hanged?), but when deploying a second time everything went fine. This is when using rbenv's system_install recipe alongside ruby_build.

...
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:24 +0000] INFO: Building rbenv_ruby[1.9.3-p0] (system), this could take a while...
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:24 +0000] INFO: Processing rbenv_script[rbenv install 1.9.3-p0 (system)] action run (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 59)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:24 +0000] INFO: Processing package[build-essential] action nothing (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 97)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:25 +0000] INFO: Processing package[bison] action nothing (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 97)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:25 +0000] INFO: Processing package[openssl] action nothing (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 97)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:25 +0000] INFO: Processing package[libreadline6] action nothing (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 97)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:25 +0000] INFO: Processing package[libreadline6-dev] action nothing (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 97)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:25 +0000] INFO: Processing package[zlib1g] action nothing (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 97)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:25 +0000] INFO: Processing package[zlib1g-dev] action nothing (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 97)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:25 +0000] INFO: Processing package[libssl-dev] action nothing (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 97)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:25 +0000] INFO: Processing package[libyaml-dev] action nothing (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 97)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:25 +0000] INFO: Processing package[libsqlite3-0] action nothing (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 97)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:25 +0000] INFO: Processing package[libsqlite3-dev] action nothing (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 97)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:25 +0000] INFO: Processing package[sqlite3] action nothing (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 97)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:25 +0000] INFO: Processing package[libxml2-dev] action nothing (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 97)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:25 +0000] INFO: Processing package[libxslt1-dev] action nothing (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 97)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:25 +0000] INFO: Processing package[autoconf] action nothing (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 97)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:25 +0000] INFO: Processing package[libc6-dev] action nothing (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 97)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:25 +0000] INFO: Processing package[ssl-cert] action nothing (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 97)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:26 +0000] INFO: Processing package[subversion] action nothing (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 97)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:26 +0000] INFO: Processing rbenv_script[rbenv install 1.9.3-p0 (system)] action nothing (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/ruby.rb line 59)
[Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:19:26 +0000] INFO: Processing script[rbenv install 1.9.3-p0 (system)] action run (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/rbenv/providers/script.rb line 28)

[rymohr]

I'm actually no longer experiencing this behavior, but can't remember what caused it to start working.

[benatkin]

I just experienced this with 2.0.0-p247. I logged in and top showed "ruby" as the resource hog.

[hlascelles]

We're seeing this too. It appears the install worked fine, but chef hangs waiting for a response. rbenv and ruby are ready to go on the box. Seen with both ruby 1.9.3 and 2.0.0.

[bonfireduffy]

I am seeing this presently with 2.0.0.

[hlascelles]

We resolved this by ensuring that the server continued to poll the client (not the other way around). This can be done two ways. One hacky way is just to have a thread that sends a Chef warn log line every 10 seconds thus:

Thread.new do
  loop do
    Chef::Log.warn('Keeping the ssh session alive from the server side...')
    sleep 10
  end
end

The better was is to add a ClientAliveInterval to the server /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

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