[Buildbot-devel] buildbot 0.8.1rc2 master not starting completely

[John Ford]

I recently was running buildbot under PDB.  I did it by doing:

1. Comment out log file setup in buildbot.tac:
   #try:
   #  from twisted.python.logfile import LogFile
   #  from twisted.python.log import ILogObserver, FileLogObserver
   #  logfile = LogFile.fromFullPath(os.path.join(basedir, "twistd.log"), rotateLength=rotateLength,
   #                                 maxRotatedFiles=maxRotatedFiles)
   #  application.setComponent(ILogObserver, FileLogObserver(logfile).emit)
   #except ImportError:
   #  # probably not yet twisted 8.2.0 and beyond, can't set log yet
   #  pass
2. Change into base directory of buildbot master
3. run 'twistd --no_save --nodaemon -y buildbot.tac --debug'

I tried using the --logfile=- option of twistd, but that didn't seem to have any effect.  I am not too sure what effect being in the debugger has to the twisted internals, but my guess is that it blocks the entire application until the debugger finishes.  I also found that the logging prefix is still applied to every pdb line which gave me sample output like:

2010-07-04 13:04:33-0700 [-] Jumping into debugger for post-mortem of exception '__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'maxBuilds'':
2010-07-04 13:04:33-0700 [-] > /home/jhford/buildbot-0.8.0/master/master.cfg(42)<module>()
2010-07-04 13:04:33-0700 [-] -> c['slaves'].append(BuildSlave("bot1name", "bot1passwd", maxBuilds=1))
list
2010-07-04 13:05:39-0700 [-] (Pdb)  37  	
2010-07-04 13:05:39-0700 [-]  38  	c['slavePortnum'] = 9989
2010-07-04 13:05:39-0700 [-]  39  	c['change_source'].append(PBChangeSource())
2010-07-04 13:05:39-0700 [-]  40  	for branch in branches.keys():
2010-07-04 13:05:39-0700 [-]  41  	    for slave in branches[branch]['slaves']:
2010-07-04 13:05:39-0700 [-]  42  ->	        c['slaves'].append(BuildSlave("bot1name", "bot1passwd", maxBuilds=1))


Hope this helps,

John Ford


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Howell" <AndyHowell at austin.rr.com>
To: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin at zmanda.com>
Cc: buildbot-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Sunday, July 4, 2010 12:57:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Buildbot-devel] buildbot 0.8.1rc2 master not starting	completely

On 07/04/2010 09:46 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Andy Howell <AndyHowell at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>> When I start the master, its not opening any tcp ports. I tried configuring manhole as
>> well, but still nothing. I don't see anything in the twisted.log file either.
> 
> You don't see *anything*?  Then the buildmaster isn't starting..
> perhaps check your initscript?
> 
> Dustin
> 

Dustin,

	I get:

buildbot start
Following twistd.log until startup finished..

The buildmaster took more than 10 seconds to start, so we were unable to
confirm that it started correctly. Please 'tail twistd.log' and look for a
line that says 'configuration update complete' to verify correct startup.

I tried running it under strace, but that didn't give me any clues.

I ran the test suite. All tests passed once I installed the mock support.

I tried running under the debugger, but didn't get very far. I'm don't know how
effectively debug twisted apps.



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