I recently installed python-2.6.1 and then twisted-8.2.0 (outside of the
python tree). One of my users is complaining that when he uses trial to
test some twisted programs, although his test passes, he has to stare at
a stack trace like this which mentions dropin.cache.new failing to be
written:
$ cat foo.py
#!/sw/external/python-2.6.1/bin/python
from twisted.trial import unittest
class MyTestClass(unittest.TestCase):
def test_foobar(self):
print 'hello, world!'
self.failUnless(1 == 1)
$ /sw/external/twisted-8.2.0/bin/trial ./foo.py
/sw/external/twisted-8.2.0/lib/python/twisted/persisted/sob.py:12:
DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
import os, md5, sys
/sw/external/twisted-8.2.0/lib/python/twisted/python/filepath.py:12:
DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module
instead
import sha
/sw/external/twisted-8.2.0/lib/python/twisted/web/microdom.py:181:
SyntaxWarning: assertion is always true, perhaps remove parentheses?
assert (oldChild.parentNode is self,
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/sw/external/twisted-8.2.0/lib/python/twisted/python/usage.py",
line 241, in parseOptions
self.postOptions()
File "/sw/external/twisted-8.2.0/lib/python/twisted/scripts/trial.py",
line 293, in postOptions
self['reporter'] = self._loadReporterByName(self['reporter'])
File "/sw/external/twisted-8.2.0/lib/python/twisted/scripts/trial.py",
line 279, in _loadReporterByName
for p in plugin.getPlugins(itrial.IReporter):
File "/sw/external/twisted-8.2.0/lib/python/twisted/plugin.py", line
200, in getPlugins
allDropins = getCache(package)
--- <exception caught here> ---
File "/sw/external/twisted-8.2.0/lib/python/twisted/plugin.py", line
179, in getCache
dropinPath.setContent(pickle.dumps(dropinDotCache))
File
"/sw/external/twisted-8.2.0/lib/python/twisted/python/filepath.py", line
623, in setContent
f = sib.open('w')
File
"/sw/external/twisted-8.2.0/lib/python/twisted/python/filepath.py", line
433, in open
return open(self.path, mode+'b')
exceptions.IOError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system:
'/sw/external/twisted-8.2.0/lib/python/twisted/plugins/dropin.cache.new'
foo
MyTestClass
test_foobar ... hello, world!
[OK]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------
Ran 1 tests in 0.023s
PASSED (successes=1)
I would consider this to be an install bug. Evidently, trial uses
plugins, which upon reading
http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/howto/plugin.html#a
uto3 I find that plugins need up-to-date dropin.cache files to be built,
or else they'll be built dynamically; the latter step fails in my case
due to my site-wide install being on a read-only directory. The docs
say "when installing or removing software which provides Twisted
plugins, the site administrator should be sure the cache is
regenerated"; however all I did was install twisted itself, not any
specific plugins. All I did to install twisted was 'python setup.py
install --home=...' and at no later point did I ever add new plugins to
it. Why can't the install take care of initial dropin.cache generation
for me?
I see a related issue http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/2409.
Regardless of whether ticket 2409 goes anywhere, should I raise an issue
that the install should really take care of initial dropin.cache
generation, much like python install takes care of std lib .py->.pyc
generation?
Thanks.
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