[ITP] python-getdevinfo

Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty hamishmb@live.co.uk
Wed Sep 2 15:29:21 GMT 2020


*bump* in case this has not been seen.

Hamish

On 26/08/2020 10:35, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Okay, I have updated the packages (same location:
> https://www.hamishmb.com/files/cygwin-temp/). It should now handle fork
> errors better.
>
> If it fails again, please post the full output from the test command so
> I can see what version(s) of Python the tests are failing on. It might
> be useful for someone else to have a go as well - would be good to know
> multiple people can reproduce this issue as I have still had no luck
> doing that.
>
> Thanks for your patience,
>
> Hamish
>
> On 21/08/2020 16:33, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 20/08/2020 07:01, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> On 19.08.2020 13:22, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>>> On 19/08/2020 06:53, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>>>> something looks wrong on test
>>>>>
>>>>> ======================================================================
>>>>> ERROR: test_get_info (tests.getdevinfo_tests_cygwin.TestGetInfo)
>>>>> Test that the information can be collected on this system without error
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>>    File
>>>>> "/pub/tmp/python-getdevinfo-1.1.0-1.src/python-getdevinfo-1.1.0-1.x86_64/src/getdevinfo-1.1.0/getdevinfo/tests/getdevinfo_tests_cygwin.py",
>>>>>
>>>>> line 218, in test_get_info
>>>>>      cygwin.get_info()
>>>>>    File
>>>>> "/pub/tmp/python-getdevinfo-1.1.0-1.src/python-getdevinfo-1.1.0-1.x86_64/build/getdevinfo/cygwin.py",
>>>>>
>>>>> line 101, in get_info
>>>>>      get_device_info(disk)
>>>>>    File
>>>>> "/pub/tmp/python-getdevinfo-1.1.0-1.src/python-getdevinfo-1.1.0-1.x86_64/build/getdevinfo/cygwin.py",
>>>>>
>>>>> line 135, in get_device_info
>>>>>      cmd = subprocess.run([SMARTCTL, "-i", host_disk, "-j"],
>>>>> stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
>>>>>    File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 489, in run
>>>>>      with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
>>>>>    File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 854, in __init__
>>>>>      self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
>>>>>    File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 1637, in
>>>>> _execute_child
>>>>>      self.pid = _posixsubprocess.fork_exec(
>>>>> BlockingIOError: [Errno 11] Resource temporarily unavailable
>>>>>
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> Ran 23 tests in 0.679s
>>>>>
>>>>> FAILED (errors=1)
>>>>> NOTE: These tests won't work correctly without administrator
>>>>> privileges.
>>>>>
>>>>> $ id
>>>>> uid=197609(Marco) gid=544(Administratoren)
>>>>> groups=544(Administratoren),197121(Kein)
>>>> Unfortunately I have not been able to reproduce this issue on my end
>>>> with either 32-bit or 64-bit Cygwin. What happens when you run
>>>> "/usr/sbin/smartctl.exe -i /dev/sda -j" (assuming /dev/sda is a disk
>>>> that Cygwin sees)? Note that the output may include the drive serial
>>>> number - make sure to blank it out if you post the output here.
>>>>
>>>> If this is on 32-bit Cygwin, this looks like the good old fork bug to
>>>> me, seeing as you're getting "11 Resource temporarily unavailable" when
>>>> attempting to fork. I can't remember what worked to fix that for me the
>>>> last time I had it, might have been antivirus software exceptions. I
>>>> would say that maybe some packages need updating, but given you've been
>>>> releasing packages in the last few days, I highly doubt your Cygwin
>>>> install is out of date.
>>>>
>>>> If the smartctl command works, could you try running the tests again
>>>> please?
>>>>
>>>> Hamish
>>>>
>>> /usr/sbin/smartctl.exe -i /dev/sda -j
>>>
>>> {
>>>   "json_format_version": [
>>>     1,
>>>     0
>>>   ],
>>>   "smartctl": {
>>>     "version": [
>>>       7,
>>>       1
>>>     ],
>>>     "svn_revision": "5022",
>>>     "platform_info": "x86_64-pc-cygwin-w10-b19041",
>>>     "build_info": "(cygwin-7.1-1)",
>>>     "argv": [
>>>       "smartctl",
>>>       "-i",
>>>       "/dev/sda",
>>>       "-j"
>>>     ],
>>>     "exit_status": 0
>>>   },
>>>   "device": {
>>>     "name": "/dev/sda",
>>>     "info_name": "/dev/sda",
>>>     "type": "ata",
>>>     "protocol": "ATA"
>>>   },
>>>   "model_family": "Seagate Mobile HDD",
>>>   "model_name": "ST1000LM035-1RK172",
>>>   "serial_number": "WL10S143",
>>>   "wwn": {
>>>     "naa": 5,
>>>     "oui": 3152,
>>>     "id": 2907615223
>>>   },
>>>   "firmware_version": "RSM7",
>>>   "user_capacity": {
>>>     "blocks": 1953525168,
>>>     "bytes": 1000204886016
>>>   },
>>>   "logical_block_size": 512,
>>>   "physical_block_size": 4096,
>>>   "rotation_rate": 5400,
>>>   "form_factor": {
>>>     "ata_value": 3,
>>>     "name": "2.5 inches"
>>>   },
>>>   "in_smartctl_database": true,
>>>   "ata_version": {
>>>     "string": "ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 3b",
>>>     "major_value": 2032,
>>>     "minor_value": 31
>>>   },
>>>   "sata_version": {
>>>     "string": "SATA 3.1",
>>>     "value": 127
>>>   },
>>>   "interface_speed": {
>>>     "max": {
>>>       "sata_value": 14,
>>>       "string": "6.0 Gb/s",
>>>       "units_per_second": 60,
>>>       "bits_per_unit": 100000000
>>>     },
>>>     "current": {
>>>       "sata_value": 3,
>>>       "string": "6.0 Gb/s",
>>>       "units_per_second": 60,
>>>       "bits_per_unit": 100000000
>>>     }
>>>   },
>>>   "local_time": {
>>>     "time_t": 1597901572,
>>>     "asctime": "Thu Aug 20 07:32:52 2020 CEST"
>>>   }
>>> }
>>>
>>> no change on test error messages, also rebuilding from scratch in an
>>> Admin enviroment
>>>
>> Hmm, that's unfortunate. I tried on another different machine, still
>> can't reproduce.
>>
>> I'll get it to retry a few times if the fork error is encountered, but I
>> do wonder why it's happening at all. I've always seemed to have
>> intermittent Fork errors with Cygwin but I've never managed to pin down
>> exactly why it happens.
>>
>> I'll update the packages with some error handling for that issue, and
>> some debugging code so we can see in more detail what's going wrong.
>>
>> Hamish
>>
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