tests now hang in limited debian chroot about gateway

[jackpal]

What sort of machine do you have?

[jackpal]

(By that I mean, what OS? Also, what version of golang are you using.)

fwiw the tests pass for me on OSX 10.11 and go version go1.5.2 darwin/amd64

[aviau]

go version go1.6.1 linux/amd64

I am on Debian.

I have just noticed that the tests pass when I run them directly but not in a chroot.

Do you have an idea of something gateway could be relying on that would not be available in my limited environment?

Note that the tests used to pass not long ago.

[jackpal]

Also checked that version go1.6.2 darwin/amd64 works

Can you tell me what this command line prints in your limited chroot?

ip route show

[jackpal]

Also, does this work in you limited chroot?

/usr/bin/ip route show

How about this?

/sbin/routel

Or this?

/usr/bin/route -n

[jackpal]

I pushed version 1.0.2 that uses full paths and also closes stdout before waiting for the command to exit.

Please let me know if that fixes the problem.

[calmh]

I'd suggest using CombinedOutput on those as well, as it's simpler and correctly managed by the stdlib. I don't think there is any case in which Wait() needs you to close the commands Stdout to return.

[calmh]

I have a branch that breaks out all the parsing stuff into common and tests it, and uses CombinedOutput for the execution. Is that something you would accept as a PR, or too radical a change?

[jackpal]

calmh -- yeah, I suspect CombinedOutput() is the right approach for this situation. The danger with CombinedOutput() is that some command goes nuts and spews gigabytes of data. But we don't expect that for these commands.

I would be interested in seeing your fork. It sounds like you've thought about this.

[jackpal]

Or would you like to be a co-maintainer of palevich/gateway? Happy to add you.

[jackpal]

avisu, could you pull and try v1.0.4 ?

[aviau]

The following things break:

• routel is in /usr/bin/routel
• ip is in /bin/ip
• route is in /sbin/route

Given that I fix the paths and run the commands you asked me, I get the following output:

echo "running /bin/ip route show"
running /bin/ip route show
/bin/ip route show
echo "running /usr/bin/routel"
running /usr/bin/routel
/usr/bin/routel
         target            gateway          source    proto    scope    dev tbl
      127.0.0.0          broadcast       127.0.0.1   kernel     link     lo local
      127.0.0.0 8            local       127.0.0.1   kernel     host     lo local
      127.0.0.1              local       127.0.0.1   kernel     host     lo local
127.255.255.255          broadcast       127.0.0.1   kernel     link     lo local
        default        unreachable                   kernel              lo unspec
            ::1              local                     none              lo local
        default        unreachable                   kernel              lo unspec
echo "running /sbin/route -n"
running /sbin/route -n
/sbin/route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface

I have noticed that /sbin/route was missing in the chroot I was using. This didn't prevent the tests from passing in the past, but that might be it now? Given that you fix the bin paths, it might be fixed. It would be a wierd behaviour for a missing binary.

I have just pulled 1.0.4 and the tests pass on my machine, about to test in the chroot.

[aviau]

as of 1.0.4, the tests pass!

I'll upload it to Debian in 2 minutes ;)