[ovirt-devel] [vdsm] Another network test failing

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 01:10:19AM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Adam Litke <alitke at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 15/05/16 15:10 +0300, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 10:33:30AM +0300, Edward Haas wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Adam Litke <alitke at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > On 10/05/16 18:08 +0300, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> >> On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 02:48:43PM -0400, Adam Litke wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >>> When running make check on my local system I often (but not always)
> >>> >>> get the following error:
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Do you have any clue related to when this happens? (your pwd,
> >>> >> pythonpath)
> >>> >>
> >>> >
> >>> > Maybe it's a side effect of the way nose loads and runs tests?
> >>> >
> >>> > Did it begin with the recent move of netinfo under vdsm.network?
> >>> >> https://gerrit.ovirt.org/56713 (CommitDate: Thu May 5) or did you see
> >>> >> it
> >>> >> earlier?
> >>> >>
> >>> >
> >>> > That's possible.  It only started happening recently.  It seems to
> >>> > fail only when run under 'make check' but not when run via
> >>> > ./run_tests_local.sh.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Is it possible that on the same machine you have installed an older vdsm
> >>> version
> >>> and it somehow conflicts? (resolving vdsm from the site-packages instead
> >>> from
> >>> the local workspace)
> >>
> >>
> >> Or maybe you have *.pyc from an older directory structure left in your
> >> working directory?
> >
> >
> > I think this was the issue.  Removing *.pyc from the source tree fixed
> > it.  Thanks!
> 
> git clean -dxf is very useful from time to time

Yet very dangerous in another times (yes, once upon a time I had the
only copy of a helper script hiding within the leafs of a git tree)