Failed running the puppet tests: bundle exec rake spec

[David Portabella]

Hi,

I need to build and run the specs on puppet, before I can send a pull request:

https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/2489

here it explains how to set up a machine with the dependencies for building puppet:

https://github.com/nespresso/puppet/blob/master/docs/quickstart.md

I've used a standard vagrant box with Ubuntu, so that it can be reproduced easily by anyone.

(and because it was difficult to install all this in my OSX machine)

However, I didn't manage to run all the tests (even without any modification to the puppet source code).

What can be the problem?

Do you have a step by step example for building puppet and running the tests?

$ vagrant init precise64 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box

$ vagrant up

$ vagrant ssh

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install ruby-rvm

$ sudo gem install bundler

$ git clone https://github.com/nespresso/puppet.git

$ cd puppet

$ bundle install --path .bundle/gems/

$ script log.txt

Script started on Tue 15 Apr 2014 09:08:12 AM UTC

$ bundle exec rake spec

rspec spec

/opt/vagrant_ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/dot/dot.rb:28: warning: already initialized constant NODE_OPTS

/opt/vagrant_ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/dot/dot.rb:46: warning: already initialized constant EDGE_OPTS

/opt/vagrant_ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/dot/dot.rb:76: warning: already initialized constant GRAPH_OPTS

Run options: exclude {:benchmark=>true, :broken=>true}

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FCould not change to user puppet: Invalid user: puppet

FCould not change to user puppet: Invalid user: puppet

FCould not change to user puppet: Invalid user: puppet

F.Could not change to user puppet: Invalid user: puppet

FCould not change to user puppet: Invalid user: puppet

FCould not change to user puppet: Invalid user: puppet

FCould not change to user puppet: Invalid user: puppet

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...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Could not retrieve fact='uptime_seconds', resolution='<anonymous>': Failed while executing '/bin/cat /proc/uptime 2>/dev/null': Cannot allocate memory - /bin/cat /proc/uptime 2>/dev/null

Could not retrieve fact='kernelversion', resolution='<anonymous>': private method `split' called for nil:NilClass

Could not retrieve fact='kernelmajversion', resolution='<anonymous>': private method `split' called for nil:NilClass

Could not retrieve fact='uptime_seconds', resolution='<anonymous>': Failed while executing '/bin/cat /proc/uptime 2>/dev/null': Cannot allocate memory - /bin/cat /proc/uptime 2>/dev/null

Could not retrieve fact='hostname', resolution='<anonymous>': Failed while executing '/bin/hostname': Cannot allocate memory - /bin/hostname

Could not retrieve fact='hostname', resolution='<anonymous>': Failed while executing '/bin/hostname': Cannot allocate memory - /bin/hostname

Could not retrieve fact='uptime_seconds', resolution='<anonymous>': Failed while executing '/bin/cat /proc/uptime 2>/dev/null': Cannot allocate memory - /bin/cat /proc/uptime 2>/dev/null

Could not retrieve fact='kernelversion', resolution='<anonymous>': private method `split' called for nil:NilClass

Could not retrieve fact='hostname', resolution='<anonymous>': Failed while executing '/bin/hostname': Cannot allocate memory - /bin/hostname

Could not retrieve fact='uptime_seconds', resolution='<anonymous>': Failed while executing '/bin/cat /proc/uptime 2>/dev/null': Cannot allocate memory - /bin/cat /proc/uptime 2>/dev/null

Could not retrieve fact='hostname', resolution='<anonymous>': Failed while executing '/bin/hostname': Cannot allocate memory - /bin/hostname

Could not retrieve fact='uptime_seconds', resolution='<anonymous>': Failed while executing '/bin/cat /proc/uptime 2>/dev/null': Cannot allocate memory - /bin/cat /proc/uptime 2>/dev/null

Could not retrieve fact='kernelversion', resolution='<anonymous>': private method `split' called for nil:NilClass

Could not retrieve fact='kernelmajversion', resolution='<anonymous>': private method `split' called for nil:NilClass

Could not retrieve fact='uptime_seconds', resolution='<anonymous>': Failed while executing '/bin/cat /proc/uptime 2>/dev/null': Cannot allocate memory - /bin/cat /proc/uptime 2>/dev/null

Could not retrieve fact='hostname', resolution='<anonymous>': Failed while executing '/bin/hostname': Cannot allocate memory - /bin/hostname

Could not retrieve fact='hostname', resolution='<anonymous>': Failed while executing '/bin/hostname': Cannot allocate memory - /bin/hostname

Could not retrieve fact='uptime_seconds', resolution='<anonymous>': Failed while executing '/bin/cat /proc/uptime 2>/dev/null': Cannot allocate memory - /bin/cat /proc/uptime 2>/dev/null

Could not retrieve fact='kernelversion', resolution='<anonymous>': private method `split' called for nil:NilClass

Could not retrieve fact='hostname', resolution='<anonymous>': Failed while executing '/bin/hostname': Cannot allocate memory - /bin/hostname

Could not retrieve fact='uptime_seconds', resolution='<anonymous>': Failed while executing '/bin/cat /proc/uptime 2>/dev/null': Cannot allocate memory - /bin/cat /proc/uptime 2>/dev/null

Could not retrieve fact='hostname', resolution='<anonymous>': Failed while executing '/bin/hostname': Cannot allocate memory - /bin/hostname

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rake aborted!

Command failed with status (): [rspec spec...]

/vagrant/puppet/Rakefile:67

Tasks: TOP => spec

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

$ exit

Script done on Tue 15 Apr 2014 01:22:51 PM UTC

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bundle exec rake spec fails after 4 hours with this message.

What can be the problem?

Do you have a step by step example for building puppet and running the tests?

[Felix Frank]

Hi,

have you noticed the 'cannot allocate memory' errors in the output you
provided?

Is your VM sized too small to run the full test suite, perhaps?

Try doubling the RAM (at least), see if that does anything.

HTH,
Felix

[David Portabella]

ok,thanks.

I've added more memory to the virtual machine,

and now it works.

19753 examples, 0 failures, 86 pending

(although I still get one "Cannot allocate memory" error)

I've created a gist, in case anyone is interested

https://gist.github.com/dportabella/10744999

Regards,

David

[Kylo Ginsberg]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:20 AM, David Portabella <david.po...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've added more memory to the virtual machine,

and now it works.

19753 examples, 0 failures, 86 pending

(although I still get one "Cannot allocate memory" error)

If you run 'bundle exec rake parallel:spec[1]' instead of 'bundle exec rake spec' it should use less memory. That number in square brackets is the number of processes to run in parallel, so if you've given your vm multiple processors, bump that number and specs should run faster as well.

Kylo

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Kylo Ginsberg

ky...@puppetlabs.com

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