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

[Matt Ackeret]

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Charles Lepple wrote:
>> 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

No. Sorry, I forgot that information.  Actually, the master/slave is the
same physical machine, just as two different users.  (Non-cleverly named
"buildmaster" and "buildslave")

I simply do 
buildbot start /path
on each end.

Tangential questions:
is it ok if I cd there first and just do
buildbot start .
in each?  Seems to work... and the fact that I'm not starting it with 
launchd seems to work fine too, I can still connect to the web site after
logging out of my ssh connections.

Also, it *seems* like I have to restart (stop then start) my slave 
if I restart or reconfig the master.  The waterfall page seems to think it's
disconnected.

Thanks for the quick reply.  I hope to get this working today...  IMHO, 
while the buildbot documentation is very complete, a more detailed tutorial of
how to go from 0 to a running buildbot of various capabilities (such as 
timed, then adding pollers, etc.) would be great.  I have googled and found
a few tutorials that seem to be in progress, so they hopefully will help
others in the future.  Just reading the documentation is kind of overload,
especially for non-python users.