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Bug 1119412 - ovirt-shell cannot run in cron (/dev/tty missing)
Summary: ovirt-shell cannot run in cron (/dev/tty missing)
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: oVirt
Classification: Retired
Component: ovirt-engine-cli
Version: 3.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
: 3.5.0
Assignee: Juan Hernández
QA Contact: Jiri Belka
URL:
Whiteboard: infra
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-07-14 17:32 UTC by Markus Stockhausen
Modified: 2016-02-10 19:33 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: ovirt-engine-cli-3.5.0.2-1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-10-17 12:39:54 UTC
oVirt Team: Infra

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
oVirt gerrit 30238 0 master MERGED cli: Don't fail when there is no tty Never
oVirt gerrit 30250 0 cli_3.5 MERGED cli: Don't fail when there is no tty Never

Description Markus Stockhausen 2014-07-14 17:32:32 UTC 
Description of problem:

ovirt-shell cannot run in crontab


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

OVirt 3.4.2


How reproducible:

100%


Steps to Reproduce:

1. create script with ovirt-shell e.g. 
/usr/bin/ovirt-shell -c -E "list vms --show-all" > /dumps/vms.dump

2. implement script into crontab

Actual results:

dump:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ovirt-shell", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('ovirt-shell==3.4.0.5', 'console_scripts', 'ovirt-shell')()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ovirtcli/main.py", line 27, in main
    context = OvirtCliExecutionContext(sys.argv, parser)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ovirtcli/infrastructure/context.py", line 47, in __init__
    super(OvirtCliExecutionContext, self).__init__(args=args, option_parser=option_parser)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cli/context.py", line 73, in __init__
    self.terminal = create(self.Terminal)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cli/object.py", line 26, in create
    obj = cls(sys.stdin, sys.stdout, sys.stderr, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cli/platform/posix/terminal.py", line 36, in __init__
    self._tty = os.open('/dev/tty', os.O_RDWR)
OSError: [Errno 6] No such device or address: '/dev/tty'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ovirt-shell", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('ovirt-shell==3.4.0.5', 'console_scripts', 'ovirt-shell')()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ovirtcli/main.py", line 27, in main
    context = OvirtCliExecutionContext(sys.argv, parser)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ovirtcli/infrastructure/context.py", line 47, in __init__
    super(OvirtCliExecutionContext, self).__init__(args=args, option_parser=option_parser)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cli/context.py", line 73, in __init__
    self.terminal = create(self.Terminal)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cli/object.py", line 26, in create
    obj = cls(sys.stdin, sys.stdout, sys.stderr, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cli/platform/posix/terminal.py", line 36, in __init__
    self._tty = os.open('/dev/tty', os.O_RDWR)
OSError: [Errno 6] No such device or address: '/dev/tty'


Expected results:

ovirt-shell should run as expected
Comment 1 Jiri Belka 2014-07-29 11:08:54 UTC 
ok, ovirt-engine-cli-3.5.0.2-1.el6.noarch (tested via cron and at)
Comment 2 Sandro Bonazzola 2014-10-17 12:39:54 UTC 
oVirt 3.5 has been released and should include the fix for this issue.
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