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

[Christian Scholz]

Hi!

>
> 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 at 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?

I think so. Of course with windows I am never sure what I am doing but  
basically I run the hg command manually in the same shell as I run  
"buildbot start slave". It's also the Administrator and in the log  
output on the master I also see Administrator as the user in the  
command's environment.

>
>> 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.

Too bad.. I might end up doing a samba export of that repo but that's  
not the ideal solution. Or maybe a password protected HTTP checkout  
might work as well.

Thanks!

Christian


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