[Buildbot-devel] Problems with buildbot 0.7.5 on WinXP

[John Pye]

Hi Terry

Let's work on getting a good set of instructions together for this. If
you have a patch that would be great. Or a method. I have written
instructions that previously worked for me, but no longer do, due to the
updated Twisted package. I have a little experience writing NSIS
installers, so possibly we could come up with a better way for
installing Buildbot on Windows?

I have a wiki page on this topic that you are welcome to use as a place
for annotations, if you wish:
http://ascendwiki.cheme.cmu.edu/Buildbot

Cheers
JP

Terry.Rankine at csiro.au wrote:
> Hi 
>  
> I have seen a similar thing on python 2.3.
>  
> I have been using build bot as a windows service running under
> firestarter (the free version which many virus programs freak out
> about), there are a few things that made it possible
>  
> http://www.stolennotebook.com/anthony/2006/07/03/running-buildbot-as-a-w
> indows-xp-service/
> http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/09/running-python-script-as-window
> s.html
>  
> but i couldnt get them working reliably when other user logged on and
> off the box in question.
>  
> so firestarter seemed to make it work "more often"
>  
> The twisted version i have (i dowloaded the latest stable instead of the
> buildbot blessed one) changed its API and i changed my site-packages to
> deal with the new change, and its working ok for now
>  
> Terry Rankine
>
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> [mailto:buildbot-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of
> Matthieu Brucher
> Sent: Monday, 30 July 2007 1:52 PM
> To: buildbot-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Buildbot-devel] Problems with buildbot 0.7.5 on WinXP
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I think I encountered the bug as well and I changed twistw for twistd
> without a problem.
>
> Matthieu
>
>
> 2007/7/30, John Pye <john.pye at anu.edu.au >: 
>
> 	Excuse me if this message has already gone to the list -- I have
> been getting email messages saying that there was a fatal delivery
> error, so I am re-sending... 
> 	--- --- ---
> 	
> 	Hi all
> 	
> 	I have tried to install Buildbot as a service on Windows XP.
> Previously
> 	I think this worked, but currently it seems to be broken,
> perhaps due to
> 	a new version of Twisted.
> 	
> 	I get an error like this:
> 	
> 	File
> "c:\Python25\lib\site-packages\buildbot\scripts\startup,py", line
> 	114, in launch
> 	    from twisted.scripts.twistw import run
> 	ImportError: No module named twistw
> 	
> 	Originally I thought that the problem was the Buildbot didn't
> realise
> 	that 'twistw' has been renamed '_twistw'. But looking at it
> further, it
> 	seems to me that Twisted may have changed its API and no longer
> provides 
> 	a 'run' function; 'run' is now a method of the ApplicationRunner
> object,
> 	and it seems that it now requires something like
> 	
> 	W = _twistw.WindowsApplicationRunner(X)
> 	W.run()
> 	
> 	The X is the 'config' argument of the ApplicationRunner in 
> 	twisted.application.app. I'm not sure what it should contain.
> Perhaps
> 	the 'config' value from my 'buildbotstart.py' script at
> 	http://ascendwiki.cheme.cmu.edu/BuildBot
> <http://ascendwiki.cheme.cmu.edu/BuildBot> 
> 	
> 	So as far as I can tell this looks like a bug with Buildbot. Can
> anyone
> 	confirm this?
> 	
> 	Cheers
> 	JP
> 	
> 	PS I think it would be rather good if a Windows version of
> Buildbot
> 	could be concocted that dealt with this job of installing the
> Buildbot 
> 	service. It's rather tedious and I imagine might not be so hard
> to
> 	automate. But obviously it would take a bit of work.
> 	
> 	
> 	
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