auto restart in watchdog==2.1.6

[pe-terminator]

Hey dawgs,

There appears to be an issue with v2.1.6 specific to having a auto-restart flag when initiating watchdog using the following command:

watchmedo auto-restart -- python -u some_python_file.py

Here is the error from the console:

Reverting to 2.1.5 fixed the issue. Hopefully the issue will be resolved in the upcoming release.

Cheers,

[BoboTiG]

Maybe related to #836, would you mind to have a quick look @lorenzobn 🙏 ?

[dtcooper]

Did some poking around, and maybe this will help.

I traced it somewhat to line 174 watchdog/tricks/__init__.py,

def start(self):
    # windows doesn't have setsid
    self.process = subprocess.Popen(self.command, preexec_fn=getattr(os, 'setsid', None))

Where self.command is auto-restart and NOT the command to watch in Python 3.9 (works on Python 3.10 for some reason).

Also getting this error, but with shell-command as well. Perhaps related.

$ watchmedo shell-command --patterns='*.py' --command='echo "${watch_src_path}'
# on save of a .py file
/bin/sh: 1: shell-command: not found
/bin/sh: 1: shell-command: not found
/bin/sh: 1: shell-command: not found

Reverting to 2.1.5 fixes this for now.

[lorenzobn]

Maybe related to #836, would you mind to have a quick look @lorenzobn 🙏 ?

I'll do it as soon as I can 👍

[lorenzobn]

I tried to reproduce the errors reported by @Pirate-Pete and @dtcooper on watchdog 2.16. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to replicate them.
Could you please write a step-by-step description, with general information such as your OS and python version, so that I can reproduce the error?

[ildarworld]

I tried to reproduce the errors reported by @Pirate-Pete and @dtcooper on watchdog 2.16. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to replicate them.
Could you please write a step-by-step description, with general information such as your OS and python version, so that I can reproduce the error?

that's can be easily reproduced in docker by using python:3.9.6-slim image

in docker-compose file I have tried like this:

command: sh -c "watchmedo auto-restart --directory=./ --pattern=*.py --recursive -- python main.py"

[lorenzobn]

@ildarworld Do you have a screenshot or something about the error? Is it a FileNotFoundException similar to the image provided by @Pirate-Pete the kind of error you get?

[BoboTiG]

Hmm I cannot reproduce either using watchmedo 2.1.6, and unreleased, versions. Using Python 3.9.9 🤔

[sopi20]

Hi, I have the same problem with 2.1.6., reverting to 2.1.5 makes it work again (probably related to getting rid of argh dependency in 2.1.6, and somewhat different behaviour with current parser).

Traceback (most recent call last):    
  File "/usr/local/bin/watchmedo", line 33, in <module>    
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('watchdog==2.1.6', 'console_scripts', 'watchmedo')())    
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/watchdog/watchmedo.py", line 641, in main    
    args.func(args)    
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/watchdog/watchmedo.py", line 625, in auto_restart    
    handler.start()    
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/watchdog/tricks/__init__.py", line 174, in start    
    self.process = subprocess.Popen(self.command, preexec_fn=getattr(os, 'setsid', None))    
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 951, in _init_    
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,    
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 1821, in _execute_child    
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)    
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'auto-restart'

I also had some issue with option arguments that did not expect any value to expect it in 2.1.6 (probably due to the same reason):

usage: watchmedo auto-restart [-h] [-d directory] [-p PATTERNS]    
                              [-i IGNORE_PATTERNS] [-D] [-R]    
                              [--interval TIMEOUT] [--signal SIGNAL]    
                              [--debug-force-polling DEBUG_FORCE_POLLING]    
                              [--kill-after KILL_AFTER]    
                              command [arg ...]    
watchmedo auto-restart: error: argument --debug-force-polling: expected one argument

Python version is 3.9.8, OS is FreeBSD, command line I'm using is:

watchmedo auto-restart --directory=<directory> --pattern=<directory> --signal=SIGTERM --debug-force-polling -- celery <celery_arguments>

[hexnickk]

Any help needed to reproduce this?

Error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/kozlovzxc/.local/share/virtualenvs/app-QadN2i4i/bin/watchmedo", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/Users/kozlovzxc/.local/share/virtualenvs/app-QadN2i4i/lib/python3.9/site-packages/watchdog/watchmedo.py", line 641, in main
    args.func(args)
  File "/Users/kozlovzxc/.local/share/virtualenvs/app-QadN2i4i/lib/python3.9/site-packages/watchdog/watchmedo.py", line 625, in auto_restart
    handler.start()
  File "/Users/kozlovzxc/.local/share/virtualenvs/app-QadN2i4i/lib/python3.9/site-packages/watchdog/tricks/__init__.py", line 174, in start
    self.process = subprocess.Popen(self.command, preexec_fn=getattr(os, 'setsid', None))
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.8/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 951, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.8/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 1821, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'auto-restart'

Python version

3.9.8

Watchmedo version

"index": "pypi",
"version": "==2.1.6"

[taleinat]

This may be caused by using "command" both as the name for the argparse sub-parsers destination (watchmedo.py line 71) as well as the command to run (line 524).

Note that the same is true for watchmedo shell-command.

[BoboTiG]

I am on it!

[BoboTiG]

I also had some issue with option arguments that did not expect any value to expect it in 2.1.6 (probably due to the same reason):

usage: watchmedo auto-restart [-h] [-d directory] [-p PATTERNS]    
                              [-i IGNORE_PATTERNS] [-D] [-R]    
                              [--interval TIMEOUT] [--signal SIGNAL]    
                              [--debug-force-polling DEBUG_FORCE_POLLING]    
                              [--kill-after KILL_AFTER]    
                              command [arg ...]    
watchmedo auto-restart: error: argument --debug-force-polling: expected one argument

Fixed with #887.

[BoboTiG]

I am still unable to reproduce the original issue with Python 3.10.4 and watchdog 2.1.7 (and unreleased).

[BoboTiG]

OK I finally reproduced on Python 3.9.8. What whatever magical reason, the bug is not triggered on Python 3.10. Working on a fix, thanks to @taleinat for the hint ;)

[BoboTiG]

Could someone confirm that the version from the master branch does fix those issues, 🙏?
If so, I'll publish a new release ASAP.