morning PST morning that is all hey if want to debug a failu Pants #general

morning (PST morning that is) all, hey if want to ...

wooden-ability-49079

10/13/2023, 4:35 PM

morning (PST morning that is) all, hey if want to debug a failure while generating a lock file, how would i do that? Retaining the sandbox:

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pants -ldebug --keep-sandboxes=always generate-lockfiles

and then executing the generated file

__run.sh

outputs the same truncated error message.

wooden-ability-49079

10/13/2023, 4:40 PM

it seems like pants uses

pex lock

to generate the lock files, is there a way can run something like

pex lock --debug

somewhere so I can see the whole output?

wooden-ability-49079

10/13/2023, 4:41 PM

new to pex as well not even sure if

--debug

is a supported flag for pex

curved-television-6568

10/13/2023, 4:41 PM

you can provide

PEX_VERBOSE=9

😉

curved-television-6568

10/13/2023, 4:42 PM

also, there’s a flag to tell pex to preserve the pip log file, which can be helpful as well. search this slack, it’s come up a few times before.

wooden-ability-49079

10/13/2023, 4:42 PM

will do, by PEX_VERBOSE, do you mean this

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PEX_VERBOSE=9 pants -ldebug --keep-sandboxes=always generate-lockfiles

or do you mean edit the

.__run.sh

and add the env var

curved-television-6568

10/13/2023, 4:43 PM

I do think both works, but I don’t recall if pants will preserve it or not when invoking pex. The latter is a safe bet, though.

wooden-ability-49079

10/13/2023, 4:47 PM

ok it seems like pants does not preserve in-line env vars, but manually ediiting the file did

curved-television-6568

10/13/2023, 4:48 PM

yea, so it wasn’t on the allow list by default then..