dep freezes if a repository needs to be fetched over SSH and SSH host key verification is necessary

[nhooyr]

What version of dep are you using (dep version)?

v0.3.2-192-g7bf46112

What dep command did you run?

dep ensure

What did you expect to see?

It to finish.

What did you see instead?

It did not finish and was hung for well over a day.

A colleague gave me the tip that sometimes dep hangs if SSH host key verification is necessary for one of the repositories. He told me to look at the running processes on my system. Sure enough, there was an SSH process just hung and when I tried to manually run it, it gave me a SSH host key verification prompt.

Not sure how to fix this but dep needs some way to make ssh fail when host key verification is necessary and ask the user to manually run ssh someserver to get the host key cached.

[slycrel]

Note that in addition to the above, this also happens if the ssh key cannot be found.

[sdboyer]

yeah, this sucks. it's mentioned in the failure modes section on hangs.

original issue for this one is #1476 - closing this as a dupe of that.