[AMBARI-13795] Ambari Agent cannot talk to server if "test -w" command hangs

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.0
• Assignee: Andrew Onischuk
• Reporter: Andrew Onischuk
• Created: 09/Nov/15 16:46
• Updated: 09/Nov/15 19:23
• Resolved: 09/Nov/15 16:58

Description

On a cluster cluster, the "test -w" command was hanging, and this was causing
Ambari Agent to hang:
<https://github.com/apache/ambari/blob/trunk/ambari-
agent/src/main/python/ambari_agent/Hardware.py#L102>

We need to make sure that we are properly setting a timeout for this command.

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