[Buildbot-devel] Buildbot Fails Initial Tests on RHEL4

[Roy S. Rapoport]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 11:35:44AM -0700, Roy S. Rapoport wrote:
> I've just installed buildbot 0.7.4 (after installing TwistedCore,
> TwistedMail, and TwistedWeb (after installing ZopeInterface)) on an rhel4
> system.  Doing the startup tests to make sure my installation is sane gets
> me a bunch of errors (see below).  The CVS ones I'm not concerned about --
> the CVS environment is not set up for this user yet, and in either case,
> BuildBot's not going to be interacting with my VC system.  It looks like,
> fundamentally, there's something wrong in the mail area (it looks like
> pretty much all the mailparse tests failed), and there's something off with
> the shell stuff -- testShellSubdir is unhappy.  Any suggestions?

Update:

Running this as root on the installed buildbt was bad and showed these
problems;

Running this as root on the source tree showed just a few CVS problems (as
below); 

Running it as a non-privileged user on the source tree had every run test
pass.  Go figure ...  

-roy