I've reported this bug to Ubuntu. The solution is to rebuild ruby1.8 without pthreads, unless ruby fixes the bug upstream which causes the hang.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby1.8/+bug/520715 Joel On Feb 10, 2:42 pm, Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:06 AM, kai.steverding > > <kai.steverd...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> I installed ruby on the above server and tried with a simple exec- > >> test : > > >> class testmodule { > >> exec {"TEST-EXEC" : > >> cwd => "/tmp/", > >> command =>"/usr/bin/touch /tmp/7777 >/tmp/123 2>&1", > >> timeout => 5, > >> logoutput=> on_failure > >> } > >> } > > >> This simple thing gets the following output from "puppet --debug -- > >> test" > > >> debug: Loaded state in 0.00 seconds > >> info: Applying configuration version '1265719507' > >> debug: //testmodule/Exec[TEST-EXEC]: Changing returns > >> debug: //testmodule/Exec[TEST-EXEC]: 1 change(s) > >> debug: //testmodule/Exec[TEST-EXEC]: Executing '/usr/bin/touch /tmp/ > >> 7777' > >> debug: Executing '/usr/bin/touch /tmp/7777' > >> err: //testmodule/Exec[TEST-EXEC]/returns: change from notrun to 0 > >> failed: Command exceeded timeout at /etc/puppet/modules/testmodule/ > >> manifests/init.pp:6 > >> debug: Finishing transaction 69914685668640 with 1 changes > >> debug: Storing state > >> debug: Stored state in 0.01 seconds > >> debug: Format pson not supported for Puppet::Transaction::Report; has > >> not implemented method 'from_pson' > >> debug: Format s not supported for Puppet::Transaction::Report; has not > >> implemented method 'from_s' > > >> What can I do ? Did i make a mistake, or is exec broken ? > > > Kai, something is definitely broken in Lucid. > > > We're seeing all sorts of process exec issues. > > > Have you nailed this down at all? > > So Kai, we've been doing some experimenting here today, and have > reproduced these hangs in all the Debian Ruby1.8 packages back to > 1.8.7.174-2. > > 1.8.7.174-1 we've been unable to reproduce it on though. > > From the changelog I'm wondering if the first entry under 174-2 is > responsible. Note this was later removed after upstream integrated it. > > ruby1.8 (1.8.7.174-2) unstable; urgency=medium > > [ akira yamada ] > * Added debian/patches/090811_thread_and_select.dpatch: threads may hangup > when IO.select called from two or more threads. > * Added debian/patches/090812_finalizer_at_exit.dpatch: finalizers should > be > run at exit (Closes: #534241) > * Added debian/patches/090812_class_clone_segv.dpatch: avoid segv when an > object cloned. (Closes: #533329) > * Added debian/patches/090812_eval_long_exp_segv.dpatch: fix segv when eval > a long expression. (Closes: #510561) > * Added debian/patches/090812_openssl_x509_warning.dpatch: suppress warning > from OpenSSL::X509::ExtensionFactory. (Closes: #489443) > > [ Lucas Nussbaum ] > * Removed Fumitoshi UKAI <u...@debian.or.jp> from Uploaders. Thanks a > lot for the past help! Closes: #541037 > > [ Daigo Moriwaki ] > * debian/fixshebang.sh: skip non-text files, which works around hanging of > sed on scanning gif images. > * Bumped up Standards-Version to 3.8.2. > > -- > nigel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
