1400652 - [tryselect] mach try fuzzy hangs in Windows Powershell due to More Utility

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1520309

(Developer Infrastructure :: Try, defect, P3)

Description

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

When I use mach try fuzzy on Win10, it apparently hangs after trying to remove its own changeset, thus I have to CTRL+C, uncommit the config file and hg purge.

Comment 1

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Is this reproducible?

What version of Mercurial?

Using MQ? Evolve?

Is your version-control-tools repo up to date? (Run `mach mercurial-setup --update-only`)

If nothing works, please add `[ui] traceback = true` to your hgrc file (`hg config -e`) and report the traceback that results when you kill the "hung" process.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

(In reply to Gregory Szorc [:gps] from comment #1)
> Is this reproducible?

Every time for me.

> What version of Mercurial?

4.3.1

> Using MQ? Evolve?

Evolve

> Is your version-control-tools repo up to date? (Run `mach mercurial-setup
> --update-only`)

yes, updated weekly

> If nothing works, please add `[ui] traceback = true` to your hgrc file (`hg
> config -e`) and report the traceback that results when you kill the "hung"
> process.

I will do as soon as I can use it again, now I'm getting this error

Exception: extra parameters: release_history

  File "d:\src\tools/tryselect/mach_commands.py", line 143, in try_fuzzy
    return run_fuzzy_try(**kwargs)
  File "d:\src\tools\tryselect\selectors\fuzzy.py", line 214, in run_fuzzy_try
    all_tasks = generate_tasks(parameters, full)
  File "d:\src\tools\tryselect\tasks.py", line 49, in generate_tasks
    params.check()
  File "d:\src\taskcluster\taskgraph\parameters.py", line 56, in check
    raise Exception("; ".join(msg))

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

So this is the complete output after I confirm a try fuzzy:

Creating temporary commit for remote...
? 0 problems (0 errors, 0 warnings)
[0;32;1mA [0m[0;32;1mtry_task_config.json[0m
pushing to ssh://hg.mozilla.org/try
searching for changes
remote: adding changesets
remote: adding manifests
remote: adding file changes
remote: added 2 changesets with 7 changes to 7 files (+1 heads)
remote: recorded push in pushlog
remote:
remote: View your changes here:
remote:   https://hg.mozilla.org/try/rev/3984e273d0469a2870798c4f4677f2682e884655
remote:   https://hg.mozilla.org/try/rev/a3f02df4583346380c898fa85eba897be0e6dfe5
remote:
remote: Follow the progress of your build on Treeherder:
remote:   https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=a3f02df4583346380c898fa85eba897be0e6dfe5
remote: recorded changegroup in replication log in 0.023s
push complete
temporary commit removed, repository restored

...Then it just stops here...

If I CTRL+C to terminate, it doesn't print anything, even with traceback enabled.
Then:
$ hg status
A try_task_config.json

Anything else I can provide?

Comment 4

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Sometimes I've seen MozillaBuild's terminal just kind of "hang". If you press ENTER things get restored. I wonder if that's happening here?

If it is truly Mercurial spinning, adding --profile to any `hg` command will print where it is spending the time. I should be able to interpret that output into a meaningful bug report.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

(In reply to Gregory Szorc [:gps] from comment #4)
> Sometimes I've seen MozillaBuild's terminal just kind of "hang". If you
> press ENTER things get restored. I wonder if that's happening here?

No, I know well that "bug" (it's a feature of the powershell), it's not this case.

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

Ok, I have found the culprit, even if it's puzzling.

When .mach try fuzzy runs, I see a "More Utility" process in task manager, killing that process lets it proceed properly. There no other key that makes it proceed apart from ctrl+c that leaves the try config file committed. Though killing "More Utility" lets the command complete correctly.

Comment 7

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal]]

Huh, that looks like a Windows system utility. No idea what it's for though.

Comment 8

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

I suspect the PowerShell has some kind of automatic pager, and this may be part of it.

Comment 9

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal]]

Jmaher seems to be hitting this as well, though he isn't using PowerShell and doesn't seem to see the 'More Utility' in his task manager.

Comment 11

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal]]

Duping this bug as the other one has a more succinct description without all the false leads at the beginning.