[chef] Package Resource Stalls

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Hi,

I have a recipe that installs an rpm using the package resource.

{

package myRPM do
  action :install
  source "#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/#{myRPM}"
  options "--nogpgcheck" 
end

}

Where myRPM is the name of the rpm file. 

This has normally works fine for us and creating a new VM and running it also
works fine. Recently running chef-client on a client that has been running 
this
recipe for a few months now has taken abnormally long (up to 20mins) where 
each
run would normally take ~90s.

I can watch the recipe as it stalls trying to install the already installed
package. 

Is there any reason it should be doing this or has anyone come across this
before?

I am running chef 0.10.4, RHEL 5.3, and ruby 1.8.7.