Chef timeout

Nils_Helge_Garli_Heg · September 26, 2013, 5:19am

I’m writing a recipe that involves installing some packages with yum. One of
these packages takes a long time installing, and during the installation of
this package, Chef times out with the message “ERROR: yum -d0 -e0 -y install
exceeded timeout 900”

I have browsed and searched the documentation, but have not found any reference
to how to increase this timeout. Can someone shed light on this?

Tim_Green · September 26, 2013, 12:12pm

Not sure if this is in the documentation anywhere, but the provider will check if Chef::Config[:yum_timeout] is set, and presumably honor that timeout value if it exists in your client.rb file. Let me know if this does it for you.

On September 26, 2013 at 1:19:20 AM, nilsga@gmail.com (nilsga@gmail.com) wrote:

I’m writing a recipe that involves installing some packages with yum. One of
these packages takes a long time installing, and during the installation of
this package, Chef times out with the message “ERROR: yum -d0 -e0 -y install
exceeded timeout 900”

I have browsed and searched the documentation, but have not found any reference
to how to increase this timeout. Can someone shed light on this?

Nils_Helge_Garli_Heg · September 26, 2013, 1:03pm

I'm using Vagrant with chec-solo in this setup. What is the equivalent of
client.rb in this case? Can it be put somewhere in the Vagrantfile?

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Tim Green tgreen@opscode.com wrote:

Not sure if this is in the documentation anywhere, but the provider will
check if Chef::Config[:yum_timeout] is set, and presumably honor that
timeout value if it exists in your client.rb file. Let me know if this
does it for you.

On September 26, 2013 at 1:19:20 AM, nilsga@gmail.com (nilsga@gmail.com //nilsga@gmail.com)
wrote:

I'm writing a recipe that involves installing some packages with yum. One
of
these packages takes a long time installing, and during the installation
of
this package, Chef times out with the message "ERROR: yum -d0 -e0 -y
install
exceeded timeout 900"

I have browsed and searched the documentation, but have not found any
reference
to how to increase this timeout. Can someone shed light on this?

Bryan_McLellan · September 26, 2013, 1:14pm

chef-solo uses solo.rb with the same format as client.rb. For Chef
alone, this defaults to /etc/chef/solo.rb. Vagrant creates this file
on the instance, and looking at the source there doesn't appear to be
a way to add any additional options using Vagrant directly.

github.com

hashicorp/vagrant/blob/master/plugins/provisioners/chef/provisioner/chef_solo.rb#L125


      
            end
          
            results
          end
          
          # Shares the given folders with the given prefix. The folders should
          # be of the structure resulting from the `expanded_folders` function.
          def share_folders(root_config, prefix, folders, existing=nil)
            existing_set = Set.new
            (existing || []).each do |_, fs|
              fs.each do |id, data|
                existing_set.add(data[:guestpath])
              end
            end
          
            folders.each do |type, local_path, remote_path|
              next if type != :host
          
              # If this folder already exists, then we don't share it, it means
              # it was already put down on disk.
              #

Try putting it in your recipe before you use yum_package.

Chef::Config[:yum_timeout] = 1800

Bryan

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Nils-Helge Garli Hegvik
nilsga@gmail.com wrote:

I'm using Vagrant with chec-solo in this setup. What is the equivalent of
client.rb in this case? Can it be put somewhere in the Vagrantfile?

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Tim Green tgreen@opscode.com wrote:

Not sure if this is in the documentation anywhere, but the provider will
check if Chef::Config[:yum_timeout] is set, and presumably honor that
timeout value if it exists in your client.rb file. Let me know if this does
it for you.

On September 26, 2013 at 1:19:20 AM, nilsga@gmail.com (nilsga@gmail.com)
wrote:

I'm writing a recipe that involves installing some packages with yum. One
of
these packages takes a long time installing, and during the installation
of
this package, Chef times out with the message "ERROR: yum -d0 -e0 -y
install
exceeded timeout 900"

I have browsed and searched the documentation, but have not found any
reference
to how to increase this timeout. Can someone shed light on this?

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