Kibana 6.3.1 Optimizing and caching browser bundles hangs up

Elastic Stack Kibana
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Hi,
i use ELK-Stack 6.3.1.
when i install some plugin like search-guard it hangs up, in 6.2.4 it works correctly

/global/zebra/elkstack/oem/kibana-6.3.1-linux-x86_64/bin/kibana-plugin install file:///global/zebra/elkstack/oem/kibana-6.3.1-linux-x86_64/searchguard-kibana.zip
Attempting to transfer from file:///global/zebra/elkstack/oem/kibana-6.3.1-linux-x86_64/searchguard-kibana.zip
Transferring 3122365 bytes....................
Transfer complete
Retrieving metadata from plugin archive
Extracting plugin archive
Extraction complete
Optimizing and caching browser bundles...

Regards
Günter

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It can take a very long time I guess to this last step to happen.

Note that if it fails at the end or never succeed even after 1 hour, you'd better contact the author of this plugin.

3

thanks david!

Regards
Günter

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Hi @dadoonet, as a plugin author, what's the best way to debug this situation? Is there a verbose mode for the optimisation process? What would you look into? Would appreciate any pointers to start debugging.

In my case, the customer has reported that:

  • They manage to install my plugin only on freshly unzipped Kibana (the issue happens only after re-installing my plugin)

  • They do not have any other plugin installed when this happen.

  • They use linux.

  • If they kill the process after 5 minutes, the plugin looks perfectly installed anyways. So whatever is hanging, it's hanging very late in the process.