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Re: Testing boots -- an ironic failure

 

Thanks Daniel! I think the timeout is probably just the default driver
timeout (MySQL or Drizzle DBAPI for Python), but we'll probably want
to add a variable in to be able to control this.

-Eric

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 04:49:01PM -0600, Daniel Nichter wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to test boots but tests.py hangs even though drizzled is running
> and responds to both boots cli and mysql cli.  tcpdump shows no traffic so
> apparently a connection is not even being attempted.  Ctrl-c and a backtrace
> gave me,
> 
>   File "/home/daniel/dev/boots/trunk/tests/boots/api/api_tests.py", line 62,
> in test_invalid_connect
>     self.assertRaises(errors.ConnectionError, server.connect)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/unittest.py", line 336, in failUnlessRaises
>     callableObj(*args, **kwargs)
>   File "/home/daniel/dev/boots/trunk/tests/boots/../../boots/api/api.py", line
> 143, in connect
>     self._connection = self._connect()
> 
> So I went looking and found,
> 
>     def test_invalid_connect(self):
>         server = self.make_server(host="xyz")
> 
> Out of sheer curiosity I did "host xzy" and what do you know, it resolves!  I
> work from my university and apparently they have a box called xyz.  So the
> test hangs trying to connect to that box (over my wlan0 if, which is why
> tcpdump shows nothing on lo).
> 
> I guess the connect method has no timeout?  (Or it's really long and I'm too
> impatient.)
> 
> I doubt this will be a common problem for others, but fyi just in case.
> 
> -Daniel
> 
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