[rdo-list] Widespread CI failures - setuptools: No module named 'six'

[David Moreau Simard]

Hi,

Just FYI, I've started seeing widespread CI failures across
review.rdoproject.org and ci.centos.org, usually with tox failing to
initialize the virtual environment with something that looks like the
following:

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[...]
02:14:30     File
"/home/jenkins/workspace/gate-rdo-infra-role-ansible-lint/ansible-lint/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/install_scripts.py",
line 17, in run
02:14:30       import setuptools.command.easy_install as ei
02:14:30     File
"/home/jenkins/workspace/gate-rdo-infra-role-ansible-lint/ansible-lint/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
line 49, in <module>
02:14:30       from setuptools.py27compat import rmtree_safe
02:14:30     File
"/home/jenkins/workspace/gate-rdo-infra-role-ansible-lint/ansible-lint/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/py27compat.py",
line 7, in <module>
02:14:30       import six
02:14:30   ImportError: No module named six
[...]
===

This is documented in an upstream setuptools issue [1] with a pull
request for the fix here [2].
This is affecting setuptools v36.0.0.

Since they're already on the case and are likely to release a fix
quickly, I'm not going to start submitting workarounds everywhere but
keep in mind that you might need to recheck patches and things like
that.

[1]: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/1042
[2]: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/pull/1043

David Moreau Simard
Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO

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