[tor-bugs] #8417 [Torflow]: BwAuthority doesn't come with bwfiles file, and so makes no progress.

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#8417: BwAuthority doesn't come with bwfiles file, and so makes no progress.
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 Reporter:  arma      |          Owner:  aagbsn
     Type:  defect    |         Status:  new   
 Priority:  critical  |      Milestone:        
Component:  Torflow   |        Version:        
 Keywords:            |         Parent:        
   Points:            |   Actualpoints:        
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 I've been running my new freshly-checked-out bwauth for six days, and my
 periodic cron job tells me:
 {{{
 NOTICE[Mon Mar 04 06:45:01 2013]:No scan results yet.
 }}}

 Mike tells me this means it is making no progress.

 I have frequent tracebacks in the logs:
 {{{
 ERROR[Wed Mar 06 17:31:35 2013]:An unexpected error occured.
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "bwauthority_child.py", line 391, in <module>
     else: main(sys.argv)
   File "bwauthority_child.py", line 331, in main
     min_streams, sql_file)
   File "bwauthority_child.py", line 235, in speedrace
     url = choose_url(start_pct)
   File "bwauthority_child.py", line 105, in choose_url
     f = file("./data/bwfiles", "r")
 IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: './data/bwfiles'
 }}}

 This data/bwfiles file is nowhere to be found. It looks like
 write_file_list() in aggregate.py is what's supposed to generate it. But
 maybe we only call that function once we have working stats?

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