[chef-dev] Re: CHEF-2944

[Ryan Hass < >]

If I understand the issue correctly -- it sounds like the blocking issue is caused by insufficient entropy in /dev/random.

Despite the security implications -- Is it possible to force use of urandom on Linux?

-Ryan H.

On 05/24/2013 10:06 AM, Joshua Timberman wrote:

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Sending on behalf of Joan Touzet:

Hey everyone, long time listener, first time caller here. ;)

I've been stymied by this issue for a while:http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2944  Long story short, a pernicious Ruby bug means that if you talk to chef-server via SSL, you can end up hanging chef-client forever. The gory details are in the ticket.

Thoughts I have heard for fixing it include a monkey-patch (but what about Ruby 2.0?) and "not running chef over https" which is, unfortunately, not an option.

What else could be done, if anything?

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Joshua Timberman

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