1230511 - Various problems running "Run locally" instructions

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Taskcluster :: General, defect)

Description

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

I know this used to work, because I've used it in the past, but today, it just didn't work.

I took the instructions from https://tools.taskcluster.net/task-inspector/#cDDEvmKZRPOBwae8ubLuWA/

This is what I got first:
(...)
+ for cache in /home/worker/.tc-vcs /home/worker/workspace /home/worker/tooltool-cache
+ chown -R worker:worker /home/worker/.tc-vcs
chown: cannot access `/home/worker/.tc-vcs': No such file or directory

So I ran /bin/bash without bin/build.sh, then created the missing directories: /home/worker/.tc-vcs and /home/worker/tooltool-cache

Then started bin/build.sh again.

Which ended up failing because tooltool tries to download from http://relengapi/tooltool, which doesn't resolve.

After running tooltool manually with an url that works, retrying finally starts the build, but fails quickly with:

IOError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

because:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/docker-202:1-399397-2b34f3fa740461ac470d764c170248f52ba5930370c1be8a9475ca1e3814f934
                      9.8G  9.3G  4.0K 100% /

Comment 1

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

The latter is due to the lack of aufs on my system.

Comment 2

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

(In reply to Mike Hommey [:glandium] from comment #0)
> Which ended up failing because tooltool tries to download from
> http://relengapi/tooltool, which doesn't resolve.

Random observation: without a --url, tooltool uses the right server. That could be leveraged.

Comment 3

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

In fact, tooltool could read a config file from $HOME. The config file could change the default url tooltool uses. The TC environment could have such a config pointing to http://relengapi/tooltool. Then on a local machine, where $HOME is not mounted from the host and won't contain that config, the right url would be used automatically.

Comment 4

[Greg Arndt [:garndt]]

There have been many known limitations of the "run locally" section and it was removed.