[chef] Re: Re: Re: Package Install Timeouts

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

Looks like this cookbook is shelling out to curl to do the download, probably 
via an execute resource or direct call to the shellout method. In either case 
it should be possible to modify the timeout in the cookbook.  

--  
Daniel DeLeo


On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Kay Münch wrote:

> Hi Julian, Curtis,
>  
> May I still join the discussion, cause I think I'm struggling with the same 
>  
> problem the last days?
> Downloading the jdk1.8.0 using the 'java' cookbook, times out after 10  
> minutes, which is approximately one minute too short, as the client.log 
> tells  
> me.
> An except of my client.log is attached to this mail.
>  
> Looking for a solution/workaround I may have found the source of my pain 
> here:
> /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/mixlib-
> shellout-1.3.0/lib/mixlib/shellout.rb:29: DEFAULT_READ_TIMEOUT = 600
>  
> A couple of interesting lines are in the mentioned file:
> 186 def timeout
> 187 @timeout || DEFAULT_READ_TIMEOUT
> 188 end
> but I'm not a ruby-expert and don't know how to deal with this knowledge, 
> so I  
> still (also?) like to ask how can I increase this timeout?
>  
> A workaround could be to change the DEFAULT_READ_TIMEOUT in my chef-client  
> installation, but I'd like to avoid that and have yet not tried if this  
> 'solution' is working.
>  
> Thanks in advance and best regards.
> Kay
>  
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Julian C. Dunn wrote:
>  
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Stewart, Curtis
> >  
> > <
 
> >  
> > (mailto:
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> >  wrote:
> > ...
> > Can you gist some output so we can see what exactly is timing out?
> >  
> > - Julian  
>  
>  
> Attachments:  
> - client.log
>