Why composer install timeouts after 300 seconds?

Question

I have small project made in symfony2 when I try to build it on my server it\'s always fails when unzipping symfony. Build was OK and suddenly composer won\'t unzip symfony

Answer 1

Deleting composer cache worked for me.

rm -rf ~/.composer/cache/*

Answer 2

try composer update/install -o -vvv and check wether the package is being loaded from composer's cache.

if yes try clearing composer's cache or try adding -cache-dir=/dev/null.

To force downloading an archive instead of cloning sources, use the --prefer-dist option in combination with --no-dev.

Otherwise you could try raising composer's process timeout value:

export COMPOSER_PROCESS_TIMEOUT=600   ( defaults to 300 )

Answer 3

This is the problem slow NFS. Composer write cache into NFS directory. You must install composer globally and rewrite cache path.

This doesnt work:

php composer.phar install

Using this:

composer install

Before this run you must config composer globally. See this https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#globally

Also, you must add this lines to your config.json:

"config": {
    "cache-dir": "/var/cache/composer"
}

Works for me.