commit 74567bb166c68584e3d1459f98e1ea08d09927c3 Author: Damian Johnson <atagar@torproject.org> Date: Sun Sep 16 17:13:07 2012 -0700 Failing over when proc fails to get the uptime The header panel caches tor's start time which is great... unless the following happens. 1. We try to fetch the start time via proc contents and fail. 2. The header panel caches the None result. 3. Arm later discovers that proc is unusable and turns it off, but it's too late since the header panel has cached the result. Accounting for this by failing over to 'ps' whenever the proc query fails. Issue caught by drforbin on... https://trac.torproject.org/6862 Only testing done was a basic sanity test that arm runs against a relay. --- src/util/torTools.py | 12 ++++++++---- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/torTools.py b/src/util/torTools.py index 5b70c6a..a4d49c7 100644 --- a/src/util/torTools.py +++ b/src/util/torTools.py @@ -2370,16 +2370,20 @@ class Controller(TorCtl.PostEventListener): myPid = self.getMyPid() if myPid: - try: - if procTools.isProcAvailable(): + if procTools.isProcAvailable(): + try: result = float(procTools.getStats(myPid, procTools.Stat.START_TIME)[0]) - else: + except: pass + + if not result: + # if we're either not using proc or it fails then try using ps + try: psCall = sysTools.call("ps -p %s -o etime" % myPid) if psCall and len(psCall) >= 2: etimeEntry = psCall[1].strip() result = time.time() - uiTools.parseShortTimeLabel(etimeEntry) - except: pass + except: pass elif key == "authorities": # There's two configuration options that can overwrite the default # authorities: DirServer and AlternateDirAuthority.