[Buildbot-devel] Defunct processes in buildslave after ShellCommand completion

[John Pye]

A followup on this problem from a week ago:

I found that I needed to set usepty=0 in the buildbot.tac file for the
Solaris buildslave. This fixed my problem of commands timing out / not
returning an exit code.

Found here -- obviously not a new problem:
http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2006/03/running-buildbot-on-various-platforms.html

Cheers
JP

John Pye wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I've just seen this problem as well. I wonder if there might be a fix
> that doesn't involve upgrading Python?
>
> I'm thinking it could be a problem with the 'popen' routines in Python,
> which were improved a lot with the release of 2.4.
>
> Cheers
> JP
>
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:12:35 -0500, "Mitch Oliver"
> <mitch.oliver at gmail.com> said:
>   
>> I wanted to reply to this as I found a solution.  Upgrading to Python
>> 2.5 has resolved the issue.  It appears that the issue itself is in
>> Twisted and not buildbot.
>>
>> On 11/10/06, Mitch Oliver <mitch.oliver at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> After a ShellCommand completes I frequently end up with defunct
>>> processes in my process list, and the commands always end up with the
>>> following exception in my buildmaster waterfall:
>>>   command timed out: 1200 seconds without output, killing pid [pid]
>>>   SIGKILL failed to kill process
>>>   using fake rc=-1
>>>   program finished with exit code -1
>>>
>>>   remoteFailed: [Failure instance: Traceback from remote host --
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   Failure: buildbot.slave.commands.TimeoutError: SIGKILL failed to kill process
>>>   ]
>>>
>>> This occurs using buildbot 0.7.4 in Python 2.3.3 with Twisted 2.4.0 on
>>> Solaris 10 (Sparc).
>>>
>>> Has anyone else run into this problem?  I saw a message in the
>>> archives about something similar on NetBSD, but the thread seems to
>>> have died.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mitch Oliver
>>>
>>>       
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