Unexpected behaviour of "git" plugin

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I’m noticing a strange issue with the git plugin while attempting to checkout a special tag of that project.

Doing the same for about 20 subprojects of the same project works fine.

Also doing equivalent orders at console works fine:

This is the problem:

Works:

git clone https://github.com/Kurento/kms-cmake-utils
cd kms-cmake-utils
git checkout tags/6.16.0

Does not work, hangs in the checkout step and fails after a couple of minutes with an obscure timeout error:

  • name: KMS-CMAKE-UTILS - Clone (run as non-privileged user)
    tags: kms-cmake-utils
    git:
    repo: ‘https://github.com/Kurento/kms-cmake-utils’
    dest: ~/{{ kms_build_dir }}/kms-cmake-utils
    version: “tags/{{ kurento_media_server_version}}”
    force: yes
    become: yes
    become_user: “{{ non_root_user }}”

kms_build_dir is “kms-build”
kurento_media_server_version is “6.16.0”
non_root_user is “ubuntu”

The error is

ASK [KMS-CMAKE-UTILS - Clone (run as non-privileged user)] *********************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [kms7]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “msg”: “Failed to init/update submodules: Submodule ‘3rdparty/sanitizers-cmake’ (git://github.com/arsenm/sanitizers-cmake.git) registered for path ‘3rdparty/sanitizers-cmake’\nCloning into ‘/home/ubuntu/kms-build/kms-cmake-utils/3rdparty/sanitizers-cmake’…\nfatal: unable to connect to github.com:\ngithub.com[0: 140.82.121.4]: errno=Connection timed out\n\nfatal: clone of ‘git://github.com/arsenm/sanitizers-cmake.git’ into submodule path ‘/home/ubuntu/kms-build/kms-cmake-utils/3rdparty/sanitizers-cmake’ failed\nFailed to clone ‘3rdparty/sanitizers-cmake’. Retry scheduled\nCloning into ‘/home/ubuntu/kms-build/kms-cmake-utils/3rdparty/sanitizers-cmake’…\nfatal: unable to connect to github.com:\ngithub.com[0: 140.82.121.3]: errno=Connection timed out\n\nfatal: clone of ‘git://github.com/arsenm/sanitizers-cmake.git’ into submodule path ‘/home/ubuntu/kms-build/kms-cmake-utils/3rdparty/sanitizers-cmake’ failed\nFailed to clone ‘3rdparty/sanitizers-cmake’ a second time, aborting\n”}

-vvv doesn’t give much help

Anybody having an idea, what is going wrong here?

2

That submodule is configured to use SSH to retrieve the git repository. Ensure your host can SSH to github.com or change submodule to use HTTPS instead.

3

The host uses SSH to github and exposes that to the node

4

I was working around by issuing the “checkout” as shell command.