[Buildbot-devel] trial buildbot.test failures on NetBSD

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:

> trial buildbot.test.test_run.Triggers.testTriggerBuild

Okay I sent the details for trial 
buildbot.test.test_run.BuildPrioritization.testPriority to you off-list.

> > Do you need to login? Or just have me setup a "slave"?
> 
> Well, having a login might help me diagnose these problems, but
> long-term I'd just like a buildslave connected to
> buildbot.net/metabuildbot.

Sure I will contribute a slave. I am still learning Buildbot and have not 
yet been able to test it locally yet. I found 
http://buildbot.net/trac/wiki/MetaBuildbot but don't see any docs on what 
to steps to run or configure on my local system. Any pointers would be 
appreciated. I am now reading 
http://djmitche.github.com/buildbot/docs/0.7.10/#Creating-a-buildslave
which says "Get the buildmaster host/port, botname, and password"

> > Fewer problems than mine. Maybe I am missing some dependencies.
> 
> I suspect there's some assumption that Buildbot or Twisted is making
> about the underlying operating system that's not satisfied in NetBSD
> -- most of these errors are basically "things didn't happen in the
> order I expected with interactions between multiple processes".  This
> isn't the fork/vfork distinction (which process runs first), but might
> have something to do with handling of inherited file descriptors or
> perhaps pty's.  Does this remind you of any common
> NetBSD-compatibility problems?

Nothing that I recognize. I am now running the "trial twisted" tests in 
the twisted source tree and it has many errors too.