[Buildbot-devel] slave on Mac OS X

[Jimmy John]

I have a slave running on a Mac OS X and master running on Linux... After a couple of hrs of inactivity, when the slave is scheduled to run....it gives an error...


Perforce client error:
    Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT.
    TCP connect to perforce failed.
    perforce: host unknown.

If i stop the slave and start it up again, it works fine...

I have other slaves running on window, solaris sparc and linux as well and they do not exhibit this problem.


My set up is to run tests nightly at 12:00 midnight...all other slaves work fine except Mac
I have the foll environment var set up on the slave:


  HOME=/Users/buildslave
  LOGNAME=buildslave
  MAIL=/var/mail/buildslave
  MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11/man
  OLDPWD=/Users/buildslave/some_dir
  P4EDITOR=vi
  P4PORT=1666
  PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin
  PWD=/Users/buildslave/some_dir/perforce_nightly_tests
  SHELL=/bin/bash
  SHLVL=1
  SSH_CLIENT=XXXXX 22
  SSH_CONNECTION=YYYYYY 22
  SSH_TTY=/dev/ttys000
  TERM=xterm-color
  USER=buildslave 

Has anybody come across this before?

thanks
Jimmy