knife solo cook fails with an rsync error

[chrisvel]

knife solo prepare username@my-ip-address -p 4111 completes successfully but when running the same with cook, the provisioning fails with an rsync error:

rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(226) [sender=3.1.1]
ERROR: RuntimeError: Failed to launch command ["rsync", "-rL", 
"--rsh=ssh username@my-ip-address -p 4111 -o ControlMaster=auto -o           
ControlPath=/home/my_username/.chef/knife-solo-sockets/%h -o ControlPersist=3600", 
"--delete-after", "-zt", "--exclude=revision-deploys", "--exclude=.git", "--exclude=.hg", 
"--exclude=.svn", "--exclude=.bzr", "/home/my_username/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/knife-solo-   
0.5.1/lib/knife-solo/resources/patch_cookbooks/", ":~/chef-solo/cookbooks-1"]

My host machine is an ubuntu desktop 15.10 and my node is an ubuntu server 14.04LTS.
What am I doing wrong ?

[matschaffer]

Give it a try with --ssh-control-master no.

If that works it's an issue with the control sockets which will be removed in a future release.

[Vasencheg]

My host machine is a Windows 10 (msys2 rsync) and my node is an ubuntu 14.04LTS. And i have same issue.
The

--ssh-control-master no

seems to be working for me.
Thx.

[matschaffer]

Glad to hear it! I'm actually planning on having "no" be the default setting for the 0.6 release.

[Vasencheg]

It's another way to fix the issue by adding ControlMaster no to SSH config file.

Host host.com
  ControlMaster no
  StrictHostKeyChecking no
  User user
  IdentityFile  ~/.ssh/key.pem