May be OS X specific, but when attempting to do retries the utils.execute code will fail.
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ERROR: test_retry_on_failure (nova.tests.test_utils.ExecuteTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/termie/p/nova/nova/tests/test_utils.py", line 57, in test_retry_on_failure
delay_on_retry=False)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.6.5/lib/python2.6/unittest.py", line 336, in failUnlessRaises
callableObj(*args, **kwargs)
File "/Users/termie/p/nova/nova/utils.py", line 160, in execute
result = obj.communicate(process_input)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.6.5/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 701, in communicate
return self._communicate(input)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.6.5/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1224, in _communicate
data = os.read(self.stderr.fileno(), 1024)
OSError: [Errno 35] Resource temporarily unavailable
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2011-03-23 12:47:16,563 DEBUG nova.utils [-] Running cmd (subprocess): /var/folders/vZ/vZRD261jEaOaybrhr4Aazk+++TI/-Tmp-/tmpPYU_Pg /var/folders/vZ/vZRD261jEaOaybrhr4Aazk+++TI/-Tmp-/tmps5BtyI from (pid=592) execute /Users/termie/p/nova/nova/utils.py:149
2011-03-23 12:47:16,580 DEBUG nova.utils [-] Result was 1 from (pid=592) execute /Users/termie/p/nova/nova/utils.py:165
2011-03-23 12:47:16,581 DEBUG nova.utils [-] ['/var/folders/vZ/vZRD261jEaOaybrhr4Aazk+++TI/-Tmp-/tmpPYU_Pg', '/var/folders/vZ/vZRD261jEaOaybrhr4Aazk+++TI/-Tmp-/tmps5BtyI'] failed. Retrying. from (pid=592) execute /Users/termie/p/nova/nova/utils.py:182
2011-03-23 12:47:16,582 DEBUG nova.utils [-] Running cmd (subprocess): /var/folders/vZ/vZRD261jEaOaybrhr4Aazk+++TI/-Tmp-/tmpPYU_Pg /var/folders/vZ/vZRD261jEaOaybrhr4Aazk+++TI/-Tmp-/tmps5BtyI from (pid=592) execute /Users/termie/p/nova/nova/utils.py:149
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