[Buildbot-devel] $HOME missing in steps' environment

[Jorge Gonzalez]

Ah, I forgot mentioning what you did! I'm also using upstart...
thanks for the tip

Jorge


On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:

> Oh, my, yes.  When I run buildbot under upstart, just about every
> environment variable is missing.
>
> In my wrapper script, I end up doing things like
>
> if test "$LOGNAME" = ""
> then
>     # Upstart jobs don't set traditional variables.
>     BUILDUSER=`id -nu`
>     BUILDUSERHOME=`eval echo ~$BUILDUSER`
> else
>     BUILDUSER=$LOGNAME
>     BUILDUSERHOME=$HOME
> fi
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Jorge Gonzalez <gjorge at google.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm running 8.6, and in just one ubuntu host out of many equally
>> configured ones, all steps are missing the HOME variable from their
>> environment.
>>
>> Has anyone ever run into something like this?
>>
>> Jorge
>>
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