I don't know; that's why I don't want to swallow all exceptions, otherwise
we'll never hear about it if there's some other failure mode we haven't
thought of.

-- John

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Martin Bligh <[email protected]> wrote:

> Are there other things that can blow up here?
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:12 AM, John Admanski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Okay, but what about just catching AutoservRunError so that only runlevel
> > execution failures are caught?
> > -- john
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Martin Bligh <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> agreed, there's not much else sensible we can do.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:02 AM, K.D. Lucas <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > So there are some cases when the command is not found, which will
> return
> >> > with exit code of 127, and other cases when runlevel can't find
> >> > /var/run/utmp, which returns an exit code of 1.
> >> > If there is an error with runlevel then we're not going to get the
> >> > needed
> >> > info out, so I think returning False is ok here, as it will let
> AutoTest
> >> > continue on it's merry way.
> >> > Kelly
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:26 AM, John Admanski <[email protected]>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> If the expected failure mode is a lack of runlevel, it should
> probably
> >> >> be
> >> >> explicitly checking for the command failing with exit code 127
> instead
> >> >> of
> >> >> just swallowing all errors.
> >> >> Also, it would be nice if there was some alternate method of checking
> >> >> for
> >> >> "is the machine shutting down", but maybe that's just not possible.
> >> >>
> >> >> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:16 AM, K.D. Lucas <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> My team is working with an operating system that doesn't support
> >> >>> runlevel, so I'd like to wrap that in a try block.
> >> >>>
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