[Buildbot-devel] Why is my SVNPoller not working?

[Charles Lepple]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Matt Ackeret <mattack at apple.com> wrote:
>
> I'm very much of a buildbot (and subversion) newbie..
>
> I have a periodic scheduler successfully building every 10 minutes.
> I'm trying to convert that into using SVNPoller, but the poller is failing.
>
> I'm using
> Buildbot version: 0.7.6
> Twisted version: 8.2.0
>
> on Mac OS X.
>
> Here's the output I'm getting:
> 2010-01-15 23:28:20+0000 [-] SVNPoller polling
> 2010-01-15 23:28:20+0000 [-] SVNPoller failed
> 2010-01-15 23:28:20+0000 [-] _finished : [Failure instance: Traceback (failure with no frames): <class 'twisted.internet.utils._UnexpectedErrorOutput'>: got stderr: 'svn: Network connection closed unexpectedly\n'
>  ]

If I understand your setup correctly, the SVNPoller is running on the
master, and the SVN checkout step is running on the slave. Any
firewall or ACL differences?

Are you starting buildbot from launchd on either side?

http://buildbot.net/trac/wiki/UsingLaunchd

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- Charles Lepple