[Twisted-Python] could plugin cache get currupted?
Gabriel Rossetti
mailing_lists at evotex.ch
Thu Mar 27 12:50:34 MDT 2008
On 04:30 pm, mailing_lists at evotex.ch wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I coded a program that uses Twisted's plugin system. I have noticed
>> that if I interrupt the application using Ctrl+C (SIGINT) that when I
>> run it next time I get this :
>>
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/twisted/plugin.py", line 227,
>> in getPlugins
>> allDropins = getCache(package)
>> --- <exception caught here> ---
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/twisted/plugin.py", line 178,
>> in getCache
>> provider = namedAny(module.__name__ + '.' + moduleName)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/twisted/python/reflect.py",
>> line 375, in namedAny
>> obj = getattr(obj, n)
>> exceptions.AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SendFile'
>>
>> Could this mean that the plugin cache is corrupt? If so, How can I
>> keep it from getting corrupted (is there a safe way of closing it)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gabriel
>>
glyph at divmod.com wrote:
>
> This traceback is tantalizingly interesting, but I don't know what
> might have caused the error.
>
> It might not mean that your plugin cache is "corrupt", per se, but
> that you've changed the names of some things in your code. I'm not
> sure why it hasn't gotten regenerated in the meanwhile.
>
> Can you come up with an example program which will even semi-reliably
> reproduce this error in a clean environment? If not, is your code
> publicly available?
I thought it gets corrupt because I didn't change or move any of the
plugin code. I've had this error happen 3 or 4 times today, out of maybe
20 runs, so it's hard to reproduce. I'll try to come up with an example
that reproduces this, as I can't give out the code yet.
Gabriel
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