[users at bb.net] BuildBot Worker Not Returning Command Prompt When Started Under Windows

[Stephen Davis]

The buildbot process on Windows doesn't "daemonize" so it never returns to the prompt like it does on POSIX systems.  That's expected behavior unless things have changed in 0.9 but I would doubt it (I'm on 0.8.12).

Unless you take the extra steps of turning the buildbot into a Service, you have to leave a cmd window running with that process running inside it.  The docs talk about making the buildbot slave into a Service but I've never had much luck with it since it doesn't behave properly if you are building/testing a GUI app (which I am).

hth,
stephen

> On Nov 21, 2016, at 10:54 AM, Glen Neff (gneff) <gneff at cisco.com> wrote:
> 
> I’m new to BuildBot and actually new to deploying Python software on Windows.  I’ve been following the tutorial best I can to do a test deployment of BuildBot on Windows 10, but the eventual target platform is Windows 8 Server (not my choice).
>  
> I do actually have a master and a worker functioning, but when I launch the worker, it works, but I never get the command prompt back, and if I hit control-C to get the prompt back, or close the cmd window, the worker dies.
>  
> Environment Info:
> -Windows version: 10 (proof of concept deployment)
> -Python version: 2.7.12
> -Buildbot version: 0.9.1
> -Twisted version: 16.5.0
>  
> C:\Users\gneff>cd bbworker
>  
> C:\Users\gneff\bbworker>Scripts\activate.bat
>  
> (bbworker) C:\Users\gneff\bbworker>Scripts\buildbot-worker.exe start worker
>  
> (then nothing, unless I hit control-C or kill the cmd window)
>  
> Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can work past this?
>  
> Thanks,
> -G
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