Long running install task sometimes fails with ssh broken pipe issue

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Hi

I have a task which installs my product. Installation takes couple of hours to complete. Sometimes the task completes fine. Sometimes it fails with broken pipe issue.

{“failed”: true, “msg”: “SSH encountered an unknown error. The output was:\nOpenSSH_6.6.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 56: Applying options for *\r\ndebug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master\r\ndebug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK\r\nmux_client_hello_exchange: write packet: Broken pipe\r\n”}

Anyone has suggestions to resolve this intermittent issue ?

Thanks

Deepa

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HI ,

Please check if you have any firewall or selinux enabled on the target

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To me it looks like your ssh connection died, you could try setting
ServerAliveInterval 60 in you ssh_config.

I use that in my configuration to prevent firewalls to drop the session.