# accelerate mode hanging? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [October 29, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/accelerate-mode-hanging/13800 "2013-10-29T20:38:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Larsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de053/32.png) [@Bryan\_Larsen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bryan_Larsen)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/accelerate-mode-hanging/13800/1 "2013-10-29T20:38:51Z")
I’m having trouble using accelerate. It fails with the message “timed out while waiting to receive data” Here’s the output from -vvvv if there’s no accelerate process running: attempting connection to [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io) via the accelerated port 5099 failed, retrying… failed, retrying… failed, retrying… Could not connect via the accelerated connection, exceeded # of tries Falling back to ssh to startup accelerated mode attempting to start up the accelerate daemon… \<[play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io)\> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: blarsen \<[play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io)\> EXEC [‘ssh’, ‘-tt’, ‘-vvv’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlMaster=auto’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPersist=60s’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPath=/home/blarsen/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r’, ‘-o’, ‘StrictHostKeyChecking=no’, ‘-o’, ‘Port=22’, ‘-o’, ‘KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey’, ‘-o’, ‘PasswordAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘ConnectTimeout=10’, ‘[play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io)’, “/bin/sh -c ‘mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1383078590.97-85382680194668 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1383078590.97-85382680194668 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1383078590.97-85382680194668’”] \<[play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io)\> PUT /tmp/tmp0zkOQy TO /home/blarsen/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1383078590.97-85382680194668/accelerate \<[play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io)\> EXEC [‘ssh’, ‘-tt’, ‘-vvv’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlMaster=auto’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPersist=60s’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPath=/home/blarsen/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r’, ‘-o’, ‘StrictHostKeyChecking=no’, ‘-o’, ‘Port=22’, ‘-o’, ‘KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey’, ‘-o’, ‘PasswordAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘ConnectTimeout=10’, ‘[play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io)’, “/bin/sh -c ‘/usr/bin/python /home/blarsen/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1383078590.97-85382680194668/accelerate; rm -rf /home/blarsen/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1383078590.97-85382680194668/ \>/dev/null 2\>&1’”] attempting connection to [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io) via the accelerated port 5099 EXEC COMMAND mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1383078595.79-111934745781373 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1383078595.79-111934745781373 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1383078595.79-111934745781373 [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): in recv\_data(), waiting for the header [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): got the header, unpacking [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): data received so far (expecting 153): 0 [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): received all of the data, returning [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): received the response \<[play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io)\> REMOTE\_MODULE setup \<[play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io)\> PUT /tmp/tmpqzlsxw TO /home/blarsen/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1383078595.79-111934745781373/setup PUT file is 126471 bytes file position currently 0, file size is 126471 [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): in recv\_data(), waiting for the header [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): got the header, unpacking [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): data received so far (expecting 57): 0 [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): received all of the data, returning file position currently 20880, file size is 126471 [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): in recv\_data(), waiting for the header [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): got the header, unpacking [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): data received so far (expecting 57): 0 [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): received all of the data, returning file position currently 41760, file size is 126471 [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): in recv\_data(), waiting for the header [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): got the header, unpacking [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): data received so far (expecting 57): 0 [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): received all of the data, returning file position currently 62640, file size is 126471 [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): in recv\_data(), waiting for the header [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): got the header, unpacking [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): data received so far (expecting 57): 0 [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): received all of the data, returning file position currently 83520, file size is 126471 [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): in recv\_data(), waiting for the header [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): got the header, unpacking [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): data received so far (expecting 57): 0 [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): received all of the data, returning file position currently 104400, file size is 126471 [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): in recv\_data(), waiting for the header [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): got the header, unpacking [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): data received so far (expecting 57): 0 [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): received all of the data, returning file position currently 125280, file size is 126471 [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): in recv\_data(), waiting for the header [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): got the header, unpacking [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): data received so far (expecting 57): 0 [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): received all of the data, returning waiting for final response after PUT [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): in recv\_data(), waiting for the header [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): got the header, unpacking [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): data received so far (expecting 57): 0 [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): received all of the data, returning EXEC COMMAND /bin/sh -c ‘sudo -k && sudo -H -S -p “[sudo via ansible, key=sqewehmfvpofpzcclsjmfpxhalofnakw] password: " -u root /bin/sh -c '”’“‘/usr/bin/python /home/blarsen/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1383078595.79-111934745781373/setup; rm -rf /home/blarsen/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1383078595.79-111934745781373/ \>/dev/null 2\>&1’”‘"’’ [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): in recv\_data(), waiting for the header fatal: [[play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io)] =\> timed out while waiting to receive data If I try it again I get: GATHERING FACTS \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* attempting connection to [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io) via the accelerated port 5099 EXEC COMMAND mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1383079073.01-237707214605160 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1383079073.01-237707214605160 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1383079073.01-237707214605160 [play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io): in recv\_data(), waiting for the header fatal: [[play.clara.io](http://play.clara.io)] =\> timed out while waiting to receive data I get the similar results for both 1.3.3 and a fresh checkout from github. Is there any other information you’d like me to provide? thanks, Bryan ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca1)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/accelerate-mode-hanging/13800/2 "2013-10-29T20:42:41Z")
last I looked, you cannot use sudo and accelerated mode. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Larsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de053/32.png) [@Bryan\_Larsen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bryan_Larsen)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/accelerate-mode-hanging/13800/3 "2013-10-29T20:45:00Z")
According to the docs: As noted above, accelerated mode also supports running tasks via sudo, however there are two important caveats: - You must remove requiretty from your sudoers options. - Prompting for the sudo password is not yet supported, so the NOPASSWD option is required for sudo’ed commands. ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca1)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/accelerate-mode-hanging/13800/4 "2013-10-29T20:49:05Z")
ah, sorry, they must have updated it since I looked last, then it didn’t support sudo in any case. ---
**Author:** ![James\_Cammarata1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@James\_Cammarata1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata1)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/accelerate-mode-hanging/13800/5 "2013-10-29T20:49:54Z")
What is in the logs on the other side of the connection? With -vvvv you should see it logging quite a bit to /var/log/messages (or wherever your default syslog target goes). I saw something similar to this when my DNS entries in resolv.conf were hosed up, as it was taking forever to run the setup module. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Larsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de053/32.png) [@Bryan\_Larsen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bryan_Larsen)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/accelerate-mode-hanging/13800/6 "2013-10-29T20:55:23Z")
I went to check my syslog, and it was totally empty. Restarted syslog and it started working… thanks for the hint, Bryan ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Wieers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@Dag\_Wieers](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dag_Wieers)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/accelerate-mode-hanging/13800/7 "2013-10-29T21:03:26Z")
Personally I think we should insist on removing requiretty from sudoers because the whole default pseudo-tty setup (which is there only for sudo) is causing more problems than it is worth.      [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/1801](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/1801) By default processes should not ask interactive questions (and block waiting for answers) when run through Ansible.      ansible -vvvv somesystem -m shell -a 'read a' The above should not wait until it times out... ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/accelerate-mode-hanging/13800/8 "2013-10-30T02:01:05Z")
I’m happy to make it a docs suggestion, offhand I’m not sure we cause any problems with it off, but we should still work ok with it on.