Bug #6035
closed
rudder-agent installation may hang infinitely on Centos minimal install due to curl installation
Added by Vincent MEMBRÉ almost 10 years ago.
Updated almost 10 years ago.
Category:
System techniques
Description
I tried to install rudder-agent 3.0beta2 on a centos6 but the install hangs forever ( waited for 15min, Nicolas waited for 2 hours on his side)
It happens that i used a centos minimal install with no curl installed.
It hangs on cf-agent run, because it tries to install curl using yum. but since we are already installing rudder-agent with yum (locking yum), cf-agent is blocked by its yum (yum check-update)...
We should not install curl in initial promises, but instead use the bundled minicurl script
- Assignee changed from Nicolas CHARLES to Matthieu CERDA
- Assignee changed from Matthieu CERDA to Benoît PECCATTE
- Status changed from New to In progress
- Assignee changed from Benoît PECCATTE to Matthieu CERDA
- Status changed from In progress to Pending technical review
- Assignee changed from Matthieu CERDA to Benoît PECCATTE
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
- Pull Request set to https://github.com/Normation/rudder-techniques/pull/625
- Status changed from Pending technical review to In progress
- Assignee changed from Benoît PECCATTE to Matthieu CERDA
- Status changed from In progress to Discussion
- Assignee deleted (
Matthieu CERDA)
- Pull Request deleted (
https://github.com/Normation/rudder-techniques/pull/625)
Hm... I feel that the best solution to this would simply be not to execute cf-agent / check-rudder-agent during any pre/post install script.
The only occurence I found of this has been introduced by http://www.rudder-project.org/redmine/projects/packages/repository/revisions/3d74cf3fb5bf4c0b5a38e8cb566905315780ff8b
diff --git a/rudder-agent/SPECS/rudder-agent.spec b/rudder-agent/SPECS/rudder-agent.spec
index 894875b..2627553 100644
--- a/rudder-agent/SPECS/rudder-agent.spec
+++ b/rudder-agent/SPECS/rudder-agent.spec
@@ -286,6 +286,9 @@ if [ -f ${TMP_CRON} ]; then
chmod 644 ${TMP_CRON}
fi
+# launch rudder agent check script, it will generate an UUID on first install or repair it if needed
+/opt/rudder/bin/check-rudder-agent
+
%preun -n rudder-agent
#=================================================
# Pre Uninstallation
diff --git a/rudder-agent/debian/postinst b/rudder-agent/debian/postinst
index 44e37d6..c15bc01 100644
--- a/rudder-agent/debian/postinst
+++ b/rudder-agent/debian/postinst
@@ -105,6 +105,9 @@ case "$1" in
chmod 644 ${TMP_CRON}
fi
+ # launch rudder agent check script, it will generate an UUID on first install or repair it if needed
+ /opt/rudder/bin/check-rudder-agent
+
;;
abort-upgrade|abort-remove|abort-deconfigure)
Actually, I think just removing those would solve the issue, but I'm not certain why they were put here in the first place. May someone explain it to me please ?
Suggestion:
nohup /opt/rudder/bin/check-rudder-agent >/dev/null 2>/dev/null &
Actually, I think just removing those would solve the issue, but I'm not certain why they were put here in the first place. May someone explain it to me please ?
Yes. The point was to generate a UUID for the machine. Many things won't work without a UUID (like inventory...). If the user does this, it will break:
- yum install rudder-agent
- servicer rudder-agent start
(because there is no UUID, because the agent doesn't create it, but the check-rudder-agent script does)
- Status changed from Discussion to Pending technical review
- Assignee set to Benoît PECCATTE
- Pull Request set to https://github.com/Normation/rudder-packages/pull/588
- Status changed from Pending technical review to Pending release
Applied in changeset packages:rudder-packages|commit:3adf25e1e31bf7cc33e0fb2d5fa6d8c4e84a8ddd.
Applied in changeset packages:rudder-packages|commit:bfdb048191e68a3a8d014692ca28c45c01d4cedf.
- Target version changed from 2.10.9 to 2.10.10
- Subject changed from rudder-agent installation may ahnd indefinetly on Centos minimal install due to curl installation to rudder-agent installation may hang infinitely on Centos minimal install due to curl installation
- Status changed from Pending release to Released
This bug has been fixed in Rudder 2.10.10 and 2.11.7, which were these days.
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