10740 2016-11-29 05:17:33 +0000 Handle exceptions while populating data to transmit using xmlrpc 2017-01-17 14:07:46 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime BitBake bitbake 2.3 x86 Multiple RESOLVED FIXED Medium+ normal 2.3 M1 1 sujith.h sujith.h jose.perez.carranza poky.bs.watcher poky.watcher ross.burton sjolley.yp.pm davidx.lopez.barriba --- --- Don't know oldest_to_newest 68671 0 sujith.h 2016-11-29 05:17:33 +0000 While working for toaster, I came across an incident. A variable which was used for private use was having value as subprocess.Popen. The problem was detected in function: getAllKeysWithFlags from file: bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py. The error shown was: ERROR: <Fault 1: "<class 'TypeError'>:cannot marshal <class '_thread.lock'> objects"> Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/sujith/MEL/toaster-latest/poky/bitbake/lib/bb/ui/toasterui.py", line 256, in main buildinfohelper.save_build_layers_and_variables() File "/home/sujith/MEL/toaster-latest/poky/bitbake/lib/bb/ui/buildinfohelper.py", line 1151, in save_build_layers_and_variables data = self.server.runCommand(["getAllKeysWithFlags", ["doc", "func"]])[0] File "/usr/lib/python3.4/xmlrpc/client.py", line 1098, in __call__ return self.__send(self.__name, args) File "/usr/lib/python3.4/xmlrpc/client.py", line 1437, in __request verbose=self.__verbose File "/usr/lib/python3.4/xmlrpc/client.py", line 1140, in request return self.single_request(host, handler, request_body, verbose) File "/usr/lib/python3.4/xmlrpc/client.py", line 1156, in single_request return self.parse_response(resp) File "/usr/lib/python3.4/xmlrpc/client.py", line 1327, in parse_response return u.close() File "/usr/lib/python3.4/xmlrpc/client.py", line 657, in close raise Fault(**self._stack[0]) xmlrpc.client.Fault: <Fault 1: "<class 'TypeError'>:cannot marshal <class '_thread.lock'> objects"> So if we handle the types which come from the data store as marshallable or at least if we try to have a mechanism to convert non marshallable type objects to str, then this issue could have been suppressed. 68672 1 sujith.h 2016-11-29 07:32:05 +0000 While investigation it was found that variable v was having object of type v = <subprocess.Popen object at 0x7f56f4964ef0>. 69147 2 ross.burton 2016-12-15 12:00:05 +0000 Fixed in bitbake efb0e47479b3526bc047112f7200087c5844bba4.