[Buildbot-devel] buildbot slave on windows hangs on mercurial checkout

[Marcus Lindblom]

Christian Scholz wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am just doing my first steps with buildbot and so far it looks like 
> a great tool. I am having a problem under windows though where I am 
> trying to do a mercurial checkout from an SSH server.
> 
> The account under which buildbot is running has the following setup:
> 
> - TortoiseHG installed
> - buildbot under Python 2.5 
> - ssh key pair generated via puttygen
> - public key copied to server into the hg account
> - putty is working and I once accpepted the host key
> - installed pageant and added the private key to it
> - putty is not asking for the password anymore (in fact this key has 
> no password right now)
> 
> Then I added a step to clone a mercurial repository via ssh://hg@host/
> repourl but all it's doing is that the step is hanging forever until 
> the timeout kills it after 1200 seconds.
> 
> The logfile only shows the initial shell command with the environment 
> and when I copy the command line over to the windows machine (a VM) 
> and run it manually in a shell it succeeds.

Dummy-check: are you running buildbot under the same user as the shell, 
with the same priviliges?

> Does anybody know what the problem might be or how I can debug this 
> further?

Not really. We've used anonymous http-checkouts for hg/buildbot here so 
far, so I've no experience with SSH there, yet.

/Marcus