[Buildbot-devel] 0.8.0 branch.. p4 syncing for triggered builds fails everytime, forced builds work..

[Bill Deegan]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:
> See subject.
>
> Here's the error message:
> Error in client specification.
> Error detected at line 1.
> Syntax error in 'C'.
>
> It fails while setting up the client.
> I've looked at the twisted.log on the client and the client specs look the same.
>
> Arg.. This is since I've upgraded from 0.7.x to 0.8.0rc*


More info. On my Linux client i get this stack trace when it's trying
to reset the clientspec.
2010-05-19 19:06:50-0700 [-] Unhandled Error
	Traceback (most recent call last):
	  File "/tools/linux-ia32/python/python/2.5.4/lib/python2.5/site-packages/buildbot-latest-py2.5.egg/buildbot/slave/commands/vcs.py",
line 1832, in doVCFull
	    d = c.start()
	  File "/tools/linux-ia32/python/python/2.5.4/lib/python2.5/site-packages/buildbot-latest-py2.5.egg/buildbot/slave/commands/base.py",
line 400, in start
	    self._startCommand()
	  File "/tools/linux-ia32/python/python/2.5.4/lib/python2.5/site-packages/buildbot-latest-py2.5.egg/buildbot/slave/commands/base.py",
line 528, in _startCommand
	    usePTY=self.usePTY)
	  File "/tools/linux-ia32/python/python/2.5.4/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Twisted-8.2.0-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/twisted/internet/posixbase.py",
line 224, in spawnProcess
	    processProtocol, uid, gid, childFDs)
	--- <exception caught here> ---
	  File "/tools/linux-ia32/python/python/2.5.4/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Twisted-8.2.0-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/twisted/internet/process.py",
line 566, in __init__
	    self.proto.makeConnection(self)
	  File "/tools/linux-ia32/python/python/2.5.4/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Twisted-8.2.0-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/twisted/internet/protocol.py",
line 349, in makeConnection
	    self.connectionMade()
	  File "/tools/linux-ia32/python/python/2.5.4/lib/python2.5/site-packages/buildbot-latest-py2.5.egg/buildbot/slave/commands/base.py",
line 147, in connectionMade
	    self.transport.write(self.pending_stdin)
	  File "/tools/linux-ia32/python/python/2.5.4/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Twisted-8.2.0-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/twisted/internet/process.py",
line 722, in write
	    self.pipes[0].write(data)
	  File "/tools/linux-ia32/python/python/2.5.4/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Twisted-8.2.0-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/twisted/internet/process.py",
line 159, in write
	    abstract.FileDescriptor.write(self, data)
	  File "/tools/linux-ia32/python/python/2.5.4/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Twisted-8.2.0-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/twisted/internet/abstract.py",
line 170, in write
	    raise TypeError("Data must not be unicode")
	exceptions.TypeError: Data must not be unicode