[Buildbot-devel] WinXP and Login Sessions

[Mark MacVicar]

I recently ran into a strange problem on WinXP. Has anyone else has
seen this issue?

If a user logs out of the WinXP buildslave while the buildslave is in
process of compiling a build, the build step is terminated
prematurely. I reproduced this issue with 2 different users, and a
variety of permissions (Administrator, User, Power User).

Looking at the twistd.logs on the slave, it only indicates that the
shell command terminated with code -1, but no other info is given.

I run buildbot as a service under WinXP following the instructions
here http://ascendwiki.cheme.cmu.edu/BuildBot. I'm using MS Visual
Studio's command line tool to compile

Interestingly, when I was running under Window 2003 Server, I didn't
have this problem.


I thought it might have something to do with the twisted patch I added
to allow Win32 processes to be killed properly, but undoing the
changes didn't work (http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/2726).


Thank You,

Mark MacVicar