Some specific Ansible playbook execution hangs forever

[stefbenoist]

Issue Type

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• [X] Bug report
• [ ] Documentation issue report
• [ ] Improvement request

Description

• Reproduced with consul Server component at create operation on GCP
• Seems to be related to https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/30411 and OpenSSH connection
• Not reproduced with Paramiko

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• High = We should stop anything we are doing and do this. If you're writing this calmly, you should probably choose another option. If it's really that urgent, please make sure we read this.
• Medium = It's important that we do this within a few days.
• Low = We will consider this on our next sprint planning.

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[wuyd2]

same issue , ansible 2.7.5, run ansible playbook with jenkins, it stuck "TASK [Gathering Facts]" forever

[loicalbertin]

In some of my experiments this is due to a lack of entropy on virtual machines when generating random numbers. This could be solved but installing Haveged or VirtIO RNG on VM images.