Readthedocs.org: Builds don't run because of setup.py - issue is happening suddenly

[veenamj]

Details

• Project URL: http://readthedocs.org/projects/qubole-documentation/
• Build URL (if applicable): http://readthedocs.org/projects/qubole-documentation/builds/6302748/
• Read the Docs username (if applicable):

Expected Result

Build should pass

A description of what you wanted to happen
Build should run and pass for some time.

Actual Result

python setup.py install --force
python: can't open file 'setup.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
A description of what actually happened

Only for the last 20-24 hours, we are getting the above error that python can't open file setup.py.
Before the last 1 day, all builds ran fine. We did not do any change in there. I am not sure what the actual cause of this problem is. Can anyone please help us out? Thanks in Advance.

[xknat]

i am having same issue.

[ebertin]

Same here. Something appears to be broken.

[krzychb]

Hi guys,

This is bad. The last three builds ended like that.

• Project URL: https://esp-idf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest#
• Build URL (if applicable):
  
  
  
  1. https://readthedocs.org/projects/esp-idf/builds/6303064/
  
  
  2. https://readthedocs.org/projects/esp-idf/builds/6302622/
  
  
  3. https://readthedocs.org/projects/esp-idf/builds/6298978/
  
  

cc: @projectgus

[safwanrahman]

Hi,
We have noticed the issue and going to be work on this to fix as soon as possible.

The whole thing is done with volunteering work, so please keep patience.

[gtalarico]

Came here to report this. Strange things is, I actually have to RTD pages both pointing to the same Repo, once builds the other stopped building (same settings on both)

Build (failed)
https://readthedocs.org/projects/revitpythonwrapper/builds/6306835/

Build(works)
https://readthedocs.org/projects/rpw/builds/6306827/

[humitos]

@gtalarico one of your build is failing because you have the "Install project" marked

and your project doesn't have a setup.py file.

In the build that it's passing, you don't have that option marked (the setup.py install command is not being executed)

[humitos]

I would say that the same is happening to @veenamj and @krzychb. Can you all check this and confirm, please?

[gtalarico]

🤦‍♂️
That was it. I must have selected by accident.
Fixed for me, thanks!

[veenamj]

Many thanks @humitos ! The build is working now. I am not sure if all these days that setup.py option was selected or not. So, Im closing this issue.

[ebertin]

Thanks, works fine for me too (used to work before with the virtualenv option although there was no setup.py)!

[agjohnson]

This was discussed in #3095: https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/pull/3095#issuecomment-339881383

We don't have a pattern for warning on a particular command failure yet, but ultimately should raise a more helpful error here. Disabling setup.py installation is the correct fix.

[xknat]

@humitos this fixed my issue,
i am sure more users will be having same issue as it did work in the past and i did not change any settings at all.

without changing advanced settings it would still try to run the setup....

good work tho~!

[agjohnson]

You would have had to enable this option in the past, it's not on by default. The previous behavior was to silently pass even if there was no setup.py, so you wouldn't have noticed this if you did turn it on

[gtalarico]

That makes sense
But even tough it was silenced, the old builds were going through
The recent nonnsilent failures were keeping the new builds from going through (docs were not updating)

[krzychb]

@safwanrahman, @humitos:

Thank your for checking this issue and clarification.

The build failure is now gone and this is a great news!

Why original builds below were reported as "Passesd" or "Build completed" (green) while actually they failed?

1. https://readthedocs.org/projects/esp-idf/builds/6303064/
2. https://readthedocs.org/projects/esp-idf/builds/6302622/
3. https://readthedocs.org/projects/esp-idf/builds/6298978/

[humitos]

@krzychb that's another issue and should be fixed after #3293 and/or #3292

[krzychb]

Sounds good. I am happy to see you have it already in the pipeline.
Looking forward to see both PR merged!

Will these PRs also cover a case when a build is stuck in "Building" state for several hours?
https://readthedocs.org/projects/esp-idf/builds/6308479/
https://readthedocs.org/projects/esp-idf/builds/6308480/
https://readthedocs.org/projects/esp-idf/builds/6308949/

[humitos]

Don't think so.

If something bad happened and the build didn't update its status, I think it will never do it, ha. I'm not sure anyway (maybe there is a task or something that I'm not familiar with).

Those PR won't make that happen again "in theory".

[Tareque2208]

Where is this advance settings for :

[stsewd]

@Tareque16 go to the admin panel of your project, and then to advanced settings.

[svenevs]

redacted. The observed behavior, though confusing, is arguably correct. I forgot that my repo had a readthedocs.yml:

formats:
    - none

python:
    version: 3
    pip_install: true  # <- triggers search for setup.py, set to false

So even though on my advanced admin page I did not have the "Install your project ..." checked, I needed to indicate this action in readthedocs.yml: pip_install: false.

Sorry for the noise, but maybe this will help somebody one day.