Failed when using doc tools to update Compute service options

[Chason Chan]

I run the following command to update Compute service options:

# ./diff_branches.py stable/newton stable/ocata nova

It failed with this output:
Working on nova...
Requirement already up-to-date: pip in ./venv/stable_ocata/nova/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Requirement already up-to-date: setuptools in ./venv/stable_ocata/nova/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Requirement already up-to-date: six>=1.6.0 in ./venv/stable_ocata/nova/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from setuptools)
Requirement already up-to-date: appdirs>=1.4.0 in ./venv/stable_ocata/nova/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from setuptools)
Requirement already up-to-date: packaging>=16.8 in ./venv/stable_ocata/nova/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from setuptools)
Requirement already up-to-date: pyparsing in ./venv/stable_ocata/nova/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from packaging>=16.8->setuptools)
Working on nova (stable/newton)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./diff_branches.py", line 306, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "./diff_branches.py", line 282, in main
    old_list = get_options(project, args.old_branch)
  File "./diff_branches.py", line 92, in get_options
    ret = pickle.loads(serialized)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pickle.py", line 1388, in loads
    return Unpickler(file).load()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pickle.py", line 864, in load
    dispatch[key](self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pickle.py", line 1153, in load_dup
    self.append(self.stack[-1])
IndexError: list index out of range

[Petr Kovar (pmkovar)]

Got a slightly different traceback, but can confirm:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/stack/openstack-doc-tools/autogenerate_config_docs/autohelp.py", line 696, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/stack/openstack-doc-tools/autogenerate_config_docs/autohelp.py", line 674, in main
    import_modules(base_path, package_name, verbose=args.verbose)
  File "/home/stack/openstack-doc-tools/autogenerate_config_docs/autohelp.py", line 109, in import_modules
    module = importlib.import_module(modname)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "/home/stack/openstack-doc-tools/autogenerate_config_docs/sources/nova/nova/baserpc.py", line 24, in <module>
    import nova.conf
  File "/home/stack/openstack-doc-tools/autogenerate_config_docs/sources/nova/nova/conf/__init__.py", line 95, in <module>
    database.register_opts(CONF)
  File "/home/stack/openstack-doc-tools/autogenerate_config_docs/sources/nova/nova/conf/database.py", line 181, in register_opts
    sqlite_db='nova.sqlite')
TypeError: set_defaults() got an unexpected keyword argument 'sqlite_db'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./diff_branches.py", line 297, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "./diff_branches.py", line 273, in main
    old_list = get_options(project, args.old_branch)
  File "./diff_branches.py", line 89, in get_options
    'PATH': path})
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 575, in check_output
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd, output=output)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['./autohelp-wrapper', '-q', '-b', 'stable/newton', '-e', 'venv/stable_newton', 'dump', 'nova']' returned non-zero exit status 1

[Alexandra Settle (alexandra-settle)]

Updated: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/471416/

[Stephen Finucane (stephenfinucane)]

We have removed support for this tool in favour of the oslo.config sphinx extensions. Closing this as wontfix.