[Buildbot-devel] twisted.internet.tcp.Connector Uninitialized problems

[Bob Proulx]

I am trying to set up a new buildbot slave.  I have done this several
times before but this time things are not happy and I am stuck.  The
buildbot slave is refusing to start with the following errors to the
twistd.log.

  2007/06/22 17:17 MDT [-] Starting factory <buildbot.slave.bot.BotFactory instance at 0x405b87ac>
  2007/06/22 17:17 MDT [Uninitialized] <twisted.internet.tcp.Connector instance at 0x405bf0ac> will retry in 71 seconds
  2007/06/22 17:17 MDT [Uninitialized] Stopping factory <buildbot.slave.bot.BotFactory instance at 0x405b87ac>

I am not familiar with python nor twisted.  I have compared as much as
I know how this installation with another one that is working.  The
buildmaster is running.  Other buildslaves are starting and
connecting.  I have not found any obvious differences and yet there
must be some difference to account for this problem.  Does the above
error message mean anything to anyone?  Does anyone have any clues as
to how to proceed to debug this problem?

On Debian Etch I using my own download and installation of
buildbot-0.7.5 and --version reports:

  $ buildbot --version
  Buildbot version: 0.7.5
  Twisted version: 2.4.0

  $ python -V
  Python 2.4.4

Thanks
Bob