916618 - Actors are cached and no longer update when running xpcshell tests

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 916874

(DevTools :: Debugger, defect)

Description

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

For some reason, now I have to execute `$ rm /tmp/startupCache` before each run in order to have a sane behavior when running xpcshell tests!
Otherwise, actors (at least them, but other files like server/main.js behaves correctly) aren't updated and stay to an old version, typically the first test run after a reboot...

Could this be related to the switch to modules for the server?

Comment 1

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

This doesn't seem to happen for me on OS X. Modifying script.js results in xpcshell tests getting the changed code. The cache in ~/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/startupCache seems a few days old, but it doesn't look like the test harness uses it.

Comment 2

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

May be that's linux specific... Or I have something wrong in my environment...
I'm on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS.

Comment 3

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

I have the same results as Panos, as in I see changes to the actors immediately.  However, I am also on OS X, so could still be Linux specific.

I don't think the server loading changes are responsible.  After the compromise change in bug 911127, there shouldn't actually be any loading changes for the "main" usage of the debug server.  Only the Browser Debugger uses the require module loader version for now.  Hopefully we'll clean this up soon, so everyone is using the same loader path...  It's quite bad as it is now.

Comment 4

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

Issue figured out in bug 916874.