Troubleshooting¶
Ansible hangs at Install Python packages (pip) task¶
Ansible pip module is buggy and does not correctly abort when pip asks for interactive user interaction.
The workaround is to manually log in to the server and run pip, see where it hangs and answer the question.
Example:
ssh -A yourserver # Login to the server, SSH agent enabled
sudo -i -u wsgi # Switch to wsgi user under which your web application runs
cd /srv/pyramid/yourapp # Go to the folder where your application git checkout is
source venv/bin/activate # Activate virtual environment where your application Python packages are installed
pip install -r requirements.txt # Run pip and now it runs interactively in your terminal
Manually SSH’ing in the box and checking why website doesn’t start up¶
SSH in to your server. If you are using Vagrant local testing you can do:
vagrant ssh
Change to wsgi user:
sudo -i -u wsgi
It should go directly the deployment folder, virtual environment activated:
(venv)[email protected]:/srv/pyramid/myapp$
Test shell:
ws-shell conf/production.ini
This will usually show import errors.
Test local web server:
ws-pserve ws://conf/production.ini
This will usually show if your database is not in migrated state or PostgreSQL or Redis is not running properly.