[Boost-testing] Re: No processed regression results for the p ast 22hours

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-31 17:56:04

Caleb Epstein writes:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:14:36 -0600, Misha Bergal <mbergal_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> You were right. I've been told that "passive mode" was not enabled on
>> firewall but is enabled now.
>
> Since sometime not long after this change, I've been unable to upload
> my results to fx.meta-comm.com.  The regression.py script is just
> hanging in the step of uploading results to the FTP server.
>
> I can reproduce this hang with a simple script (attached).  The
> process just hangs at the last step.  A fix for the issue is to call
> Python's socket.setdefaultimeout and give it some some reasonable
> value, say 30 seconds.  This way a failed socket operation will
> eventually throw an exception instead of just hanging forever.  This
> won't address my issue of not being able to upload results, but at
> least I won't have <n> instances of regression.py hanging around and I
> can upload my results by hand (lftp seems to be robust enough to retry
> these operations several times until the succeed).

Could you submit a path that works for you?

>
> At any rate, can someone at meta-comm take a look at the firewall
> configuration and see if there may be something *else* misconfigured
> on their end?  You can contact me and I can work with you to test the
> problem.

Forwarded to the corresponding parties.

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Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering