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

[Nicolas Alvarez]

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?
> 
> camelguo at guohr-laptop-ubuntu:~$ PYTHONPATH=. trial buildbot.test
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File
> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Twisted-9.0.0-py2.5-linux-
i686.egg/twisted/python/usage.py",
> line 241, in parseOptions
>      self.postOptions()
>    File
> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Twisted-9.0.0-py2.5-linux-
i686.egg/twisted/scripts/trial.py",
> line 295, in postOptions
>      self['reporter'] = self._loadReporterByName(self['reporter'])
>    File
> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Twisted-9.0.0-py2.5-linux-
i686.egg/twisted/scripts/trial.py",
> line 281, in _loadReporterByName
>      for p in plugin.getPlugins(itrial.IReporter):
>    File
> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Twisted-9.0.0-py2.5-linux-
i686.egg/twisted/plugin.py",
> line 200, in getPlugins
>      allDropins = getCache(package)
> --- <exception caught here> ---
>    File
> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Twisted-9.0.0-py2.5-linux-
i686.egg/twisted/plugin.py",
> line 179, in getCache
>      dropinPath.setContent(pickle.dumps(dropinDotCache))
>    File
> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Twisted-9.0.0-py2.5-linux-
i686.egg/twisted/python/filepath.py",
> line 644, in setContent
>      f = sib.open('w')
>    File
> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Twisted-9.0.0-py2.5-linux-
i686.egg/twisted/python/filepath.py",
> line 454, in open
>      return open(self.path, mode+'b')
> 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'
> buildbot.test.test__versions
>    Versions

When I run tests on Debian (twisted installed from packages), I get the same 
error, but then the tests run just fine.

-- 
Nicolas

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