[Buildbot-devel] Fwd: Buildbot Slaves Won't Start After Relocation of Machines

[Axel Hecht]

The paths to the working dir are hardcoded inside buildbot.tac in the master
and slave dirs. If the move changed that path, different user or so, you'll
need to adjust those.

Axel

2010/1/29 Doug Latornell <djl at douglatornell.ca>

> Good thought.  There was no firewalling on the machines before the
> move (university environment :-) but I will check with the sysadmin to
> see if something has changed on that front. I think it would have to
> be a port thing though, because the machines are referred to by name
> in the buildbot.tac files.
>
> Unless there's a name to IP address cache somewhere in buildbot that
> I'm not seeing...
>
> Doug
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Mark Roddy <markroddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Did you check how the firewall on the server is configured?  If you
> > have exceptions for the remote slaves with hard coded IPs that would
> > explain it (I get bit by this w/buildbot after a move myself).
> >
> > -Mark
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Doug Latornell <djl at douglatornell.ca>
> wrote:
> >> I'm trying to get my buildbot installation up and running again after
> >> all of the master and slave machines were physically moved, and their
> >> IP addresses changed. If it matters, I didn't have much to do with the
> >> move, so the buildbot instances were shutdown by the machine
> >> shutdowns, not by buildbot stop... OTOH, the master and slaves were
> >> all idle at the time of shutdown.
> >>
> >> Anyway, the master has come up fine, and the slave that runs on the
> >> same machine is also good. The problem is the slaves running on other
> >> machines. Their log files are showing message like this:
> >>
> >> 2010-01-29 10:22:14-0800 [-] Starting factory
> >> <buildbot.slave.bot.BotFactory instance at 0xb7aacaec>
> >> 2010-01-29 10:22:14-0800 [Uninitialized]
> >> <twisted.internet.tcp.Connector instance at 0xb79ae0cc> will retry in
> >> 107 seconds
> >> 2010-01-29 10:22:14-0800 [Uninitialized] Stopping factory
> >> <buildbot.slave.bot.BotFactory instance at 0xb7aacaec>
> >>
> >> I think that's saying that the slave can't connect to the master, but
> >> I'm not sure.
> >>
> >> The slave machines all resolve the master machine's new IP address
> >> just fine. The move happened a few days ago, so I'm sure that DNS
> >> propagation is not the issue. The machines are all on the same subnet.
> >>
> >> The only thing I can think of is that the master has stopped listening
> >> on port 9989 for some reason.
> >>
> >> Is there something else I'm missing? Any ideas appreciated.
> >>
> >> Doug
> >>
> >>
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