[Buildbot-devel] problem about test buildbot on ubuntu-8.04

[Marcus Lindblom]

On 2009-12-30 10:02, Guo Hongruan wrote:
> Hi guys,
>     I tried to test buildbot on ubuntu-8.04 and found the following warning.
> Does it mean the installation of buildbot on my machine failed.
>
> By the way, do I have to run the test using root account?
>
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> exceptions.IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Twisted-9.0.0-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/twisted/plugins/dropin.cache.new'

IIRC, this only shuold only be done once, as once Twisted has written 
the plugin cache file, it lives happily ever after.

There are issues with that file in frozen configs too, (i.e. for py2exe 
on windows, twisted tries to write that file into a non-existing 
location), but I never managed to figure out how to work around it. 
(there's a ticket for that in Trac)

However, I think your problem is worse, because with py2exe I only get a 
warning (can't write file) when running buildbot itself, but it still 
works. I haven't tried to run the trial tests in that config (py2exe) 
and for you they seem to fail rather more severely. :-/

Cheers,
/Marcus