# CruiseControl problem. Broken Pipe? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 17, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cruisecontrol-problem-broken-pipe/126398 "2008-01-17T23:51:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cruisecontrol-problem-broken-pipe/126398/1 "2008-01-17T23:51:28Z")
Hi Friends, Just happened to catch this err in the CC log: Build loop failed BuilderError: Write failed: Broken pipe ./script/…/config/…/app/models/subversion.rb:98:in `execute_in_local_copy' ./script/../config/../lib/command_line.rb:86:in`call’ ./script/…/config/…/lib/command\_line.rb:86:in `e' ./script/../config/../lib/command_line.rb:84:in`popen’ ./script/…/config/…/lib/command\_line.rb:84:in `e' ./script/../config/../lib/command_line.rb:71:in`execute’ ./script/…/config/…/lib/command\_line.rb:70:in `chdir' ./script/../config/../lib/command_line.rb:70:in`execute’ ./script/…/config/…/app/models/subversion.rb:89:in `execute_in_local_copy' ./script/../config/../app/models/subversion.rb:85:in`chdir’ ./script/…/config/…/app/models/subversion.rb:85:in `execute_in_local_copy' ./script/../config/../app/models/subversion.rb:57:in`update’ ./script/…/config/…/app/models/project.rb:277:in `update_project_to_revision' ./script/../config/../app/models/project.rb:293:in`build’ ./script/…/config/…/app/models/project.rb:209:in `build_if_necessary' ./script/../config/../app/models/polling_scheduler.rb:13:in`run’ ./script/builder:79 ./script/builder:78:in `catch' ./script/builder:78 script/../config/../cruise:14:in`load’ script/…/config/…/cruise:14:in `builder' script/../config/../cruise:68:in`send’ script/…/config/…/cruise:68 /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:121:in `chdir' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:121:in`cd’ script/…/config/…/cruise:67 [error] Write failed: Broken pipe Any ideas as to what a broken pipe is referring to? Any help is appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cruisecontrol-problem-broken-pipe/126398/2 "2008-01-17T23:59:12Z")
It means it’s writing to a file and then for some reason it was interrupted. Or it couldn’t write to the file in the first place. Check the permissions. On Jan 18, 2008 9:20 AM, mj [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > ./script/…/config/…/lib/command\_line.rb:86:in `e' ./script/../config/../app/models/subversion.rb:57:in `update’ > script/…/config/…/cruise:14:in `builder’ > > > – Ryan B. > **[frozenplague.net](http://www.frozenplague.net)** > > This domain may be for sale! Feel free to add me to MSN and/or GTalk as this email. ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cruisecontrol-problem-broken-pipe/126398/3 "2008-01-18T00:07:24Z")
On Jan 17, 2008 3:58 PM, Ryan B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > It means it’s writing to a file and then for some reason it was interrupted. This coming from Subversion#update (which basically performs ‘svn up’ in work directory), it’s about socket connection from svn (Subversion client) to the Subversion server. Can you manually do ‘svn up’ in the work directory, using the same user:group that the builder process runs under? – Alexey V. CruiseControl.rb [[http://cruisecontrolrb.thoughtworks.com](http://cruisecontrolrb.thoughtworks.com)] RubyWorks [[http://rubyworks.thoughtworks.com](http://rubyworks.thoughtworks.com)] ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cruisecontrol-problem-broken-pipe/126398/4 "2008-01-21T00:31:56Z")
Not sure why this fixed it, but it turns out the svn URL had an IP number in it. Once mj and I changed it to a normal domain name (using “svn switch --relocate”) everything’s been working fine since (knock knock). Thanks for the all helpful replies. -Jason On Jan 17, 3:06 pm, “Alexey V.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)