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

[Bill Deegan]

Chris,

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Chris AtLee <chris at atlee.ca> wrote:
> Exactly which version of buildbot are you using?

The latest from djmitche/buildbot on the 0.8.0 branch.

> A change was landed this week to handle some unicode encoding issues
> on the slave.  I think this would have shown up in the 0.8.0 branch as
> of http://github.com/djmitche/buildbot/commit/56fc5af81485c39fc2f374d371b69f31a9d0cc00
>
> Most likely stdin isn't getting encoded in the same way as the command
> is.  Looking at the P4 code, it looks like maybe one of your
> parameters to P4 is unicode, and therefore the client_spec sent to the
> p4 executable is a unicode object.
All the parameters should be plain ascii.
I assume you're talking about the p4port,p4user,p4client,etc.
http://djmitche.github.com/buildbot/docs/latest/P4.html#P4

I'm not sure how that would explain that the force build button works fine?
It seems to just be an issue with the p4poller starting a build.
-Bill

>
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
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