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Now, it's time to try everything out. The steeplechase machine needs to have firefox binaries and test artifacts. So, let's go get them.

The nightly build artifacts are here. On the steeplechase machine, we need to download both firefox-33.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 and firefox-33.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tests.zip. We will then unpack them appropriately:

mkdir firefox-releases
cd firefox-releases
mv ~/Downloads/firefox* .
tar xvfz firefox*.tab.bz2
mkdir tests
cd tests
unzip ../firefox*.zip

We have to have node running on this machine:

mozilla@jenkins-steeplechase:~$ cd simplesignalling/
mozilla@jenkins-steeplechase:~/simplesignalling$ ls
package.json  README.md  server.js
mozilla@jenkins-steeplechase:~/simplesignalling$ nodejs server.js 

We need to start the agent on the two Negatus machines:

mozilla@ubuntu:~/src$ cd Negatus/
mozilla@ubuntu:~/src/Negatus$ git pull
Already up-to-date.
mozilla@ubuntu:~/src/Negatus$ ./agent
Command handler listening on 0.0.0.0:20701
Heartbeat handler listening on 0.0.0.0:20700
Query url: IPADDR=0.0.0.0%3A20701&NAME=SUTAgent
No SUTAgent.ini data.
No reboot callback data.

Mmm. It looks like I forgot a step. Running server.js should have output something. Looking back on our internal notes, I needed to run this:

npm install socket.io@0.9.6

If you do that from the simplesignalling directory, it will fail kind of like:

npm ERR! Error: Invalid version: "0.1"
npm ERR!     at Object.module.exports.fixVersionField (/usr/lib/nodejs/normalize-package-data/lib/fixer.js:178:13)
npm ERR!     at /usr/lib/nodejs/normalize-package-data/lib/normalize.js:29:38
npm ERR!     at Array.forEach (native)
npm ERR!     at normalize (/usr/lib/nodejs/normalize-package-data/lib/normalize.js:28:15)

Once you install this correctly, then server.js will output something correctly:

mozilla@jenkins-steeplechase:~/simplesignalling$ nodejs server.js 
   info  - socket.io started

Now, we are ready to try to run steeplechase.

mozilla@jenkins-steeplechase:~/steeplechase$ python `pwd`/steeplechase/runsteeplechase.py --binary /home/mozilla/firefox-releases/firefox/firefox --specialpowers-path /home/mozilla/firefox-releases/tests/steeplechase/specialpowers --prefs-file /home/mozilla/firefox-releases/tests/steeplechase/prefs_general.js --signalling-server 'http://172.16.141.51:8080/' --html-manifest /home/mozilla/firefox-releases/tests/steeplechase/tests/steeplechase.ini --host1 172.16.141.52:20701 --host2 172.16.141.53:20701
steeplechase INFO | Pushing app to Client 1...
steeplechase INFO | Pushing app to Client 2...
Writing profile for Client 1...
Pushing profile to Client 1...
cmd: ['/tmp/tests/steeplechase/app/firefox', '-no-remote', '-profile', '/tmp/tests/steeplechase/profile', 'http://172.16.141.51:59367/index.html']
Writing profile for Client 2...
Pushing profile to Client 2...
cmd: ['/tmp/tests/steeplechase/app/firefox', '-no-remote', '-profile', '/tmp/tests/steeplechase/profile', 'http://172.16.141.51:59367/index.html']
steeplechase INFO | Waiting for results...
steeplechase INFO | All clients finished
steeplechase INFO | Result summary:
steeplechase INFO | Passed: 112
steeplechase INFO | Failed: 0
mozilla@jenkins-steeplechase:~/steeplechase$ 

It worked! We have a running lab on Linux now.

Next step: Get Jenkins to invoke this.