failed to download metainfo traceback

[choksi81]

The following tracebacks appear sporadically in several nodes's softwareupdater logs:

1304334016.57:PID-4243:Traceback (most recent call last):
File "softwareupdater.py", line 167, in safe_download File "/vservers/.vref/planetlab-f8-i386/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib.py", line 89, in urlretrieve
File "/vservers/.vref/planetlab-f8-i386/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib.py", line 248, in retrieve
File "/vservers/.vref/planetlab-f8-i386/usr/lib/python2.5/socket.py", line 309, in read
timeout: timed out
1304334016.57:PID-4243:[Failed to download http://seattle.cs.washington.edu/couvb/updatesite/0.1/metainfo
1304334016.57:PID-4243:do_rsync New metainfo not signed correctly. Not updating.

and

1304376470.34:PID-4243:Traceback (most recent call last):
File "softwareupdater.py", line 167, in safe_download
File "/vservers/.vref/planetlab-f8-i386/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib.py", line 89, in urlretrieve
File "/vservers/.vref/planetlab-f8-i386/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib.py", line 222, in retrieve
File "/vservers/.vref/planetlab-f8-i386/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib.py", line 190, in open
File "/vservers/.vref/planetlab-f8-i386/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib.py", line 325, in open_http
File "/vservers/.vref/planetlab-f8-i386/usr/lib/python2.5/httplib.py", line 856, in endheaders
File "/vservers/.vref/planetlab-f8-i386/usr/lib/python2.5/httplib.py", line 728, in _send_output
File "/vservers/.vref/planetlab-f8-i386/usr/lib/python2.5/httplib.py", line 695, in send
File "/vservers/.vref/planetlab-f8-i386/usr/lib/python2.5/httplib.py", line 679, in connect
IOError: socket error timed out
1304376470.34:PID-4243:[Failed to download http://seattle.cs.washington.edu/couvb/updatesite/0.1/metainfo
1304376470.34:PID-4243:Traceback (most recent call last):
File "softwareupdater.py", line 830, in
File "softwareupdater.py", line 753, in main
File "softwareupdater.py", line 251, in do_rsync
File "/home/uw_seattle/seattle/seattle_repy/emulfile.py", line 144, in emulated_open
File "/home/uw_seattle/seattle/seattle_repy/emulfile.py", line 316, in init
IOError: Errno 2 No such file or directory: '/tmp/tmp7g1VKB/metainfo'

The updater should probably just log that the download timed out and not give a traceback for this sort of thing.

[choksi81]

I believe the top two are fixed. I think all that remains is:
1304376470.34:PID-4243:[safe_download] Failed to download http://seattle.cs.washington.edu/couvb/updatesite/0.1/metainfo
1304376470.34:PID-4243:Traceback (most recent call last):
File "softwareupdater.py", line 830, in
File "softwareupdater.py", line 753, in main
File "softwareupdater.py", line 251, in do_rsync
File "/home/uw_seattle/seattle/seattle_repy/emulfile.py", line 144, in emulated_open
File "/home/uw_seattle/seattle/seattle_repy/emulfile.py", line 316, in init
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/tmp7g1VKB/metainfo'
I think this would not be hard to change. Wrapping newmetafileobject = file(tempdir+"metainfo") will likely fix it. But I'd like to see if the problem remains on recent nodes before applying a fix.