Timeout with version >= 8

[anakin87]

Hello!
This issue is similar to #913.

Background

Our package (farm-haystack) depends on an unmaintained package: seqeval, which uses setuptools_scm.

seqeval has the following configuration for setup (see setup.py):

setup configuration

setup(
name=NAME,
use_scm_version=True,
setup_requires=['setuptools_scm'],
description=DESCRIPTION,
long_description=long_description,
long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
author=AUTHOR,
author_email=EMAIL,
url=URL,
packages=find_packages(exclude=('tests',)),
install_requires=required,
extras_require={
'cpu': [],
'gpu': [],
},
include_package_data=True,
license=LICENSE,
...

Error

As of the release of setuptools_scm 8.0,
the installation of seqeval started to randomly fail on GitHub CI (using windows-latest).

Error message

Collecting seqeval (from farm-haystack==1.22.0rc0)
Downloading seqeval-1.2.2.tar.gz (43 kB)
---------------------------------------- 43.6/43.6 kB 2.1 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing build dependencies: started
Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'done'
Getting requirements to build wheel: started
Getting requirements to build wheel: finished with status 'done'
Installing backend dependencies: started
Installing backend dependencies: finished with status 'done'
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): started
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): finished with status 'error'
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
exit code: 1

[61 lines of output]
running dist_info
creating C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-modern-metadata-q15h8b2q\seqeval.egg-info
writing C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-modern-metadata-q15h8b2q\seqeval.egg-info\PKG-INFO
writing dependency_links to C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-modern-metadata-q15h8b2q\seqeval.egg-info\dependency_links.txt
writing requirements to C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-modern-metadata-q15h8b2q\seqeval.egg-info\requires.txt
writing top-level names to C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-modern-metadata-q15h8b2q\seqeval.egg-info\top_level.txt
writing manifest file 'C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-modern-metadata-q15h8b2q\seqeval.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
ERROR setuptools_scm.file_finders.git listing git files failed - pretending there aren't any
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\hostedtoolcache\windows\python\3.8.10\x64\lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 353, in
main()
File "c:\hostedtoolcache\windows\python\3.8.10\x64\lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 335, in main
json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
File "c:\hostedtoolcache\windows\python\3.8.10\x64\lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 149, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
return hook(metadata_directory, config_settings)
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 396, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
self.run_setup()
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 507, in run_setup
super(BuildMetaLegacyBackend, self).run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 341, in run_setup
exec(code, locals())
File "", line 27, in
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_init.py", line 103, in setup
return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_distutils\core.py", line 185, in setup
return run_commands(dist)
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_distutils\core.py", line 201, in run_commands
dist.run_commands()
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_distutils\dist.py", line 969, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 989, in run_command
super().run_command(command)
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_distutils\dist.py", line 988, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\dist_info.py", line 107, in run
self.egg_info.run()
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\egg_info.py", line 318, in run
self.find_sources()
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\egg_info.py", line 326, in find_sources
mm.run()
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\egg_info.py", line 548, in run
self.add_defaults()
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\egg_info.py", line 589, in add_defaults
rcfiles = list(walk_revctrl())
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\sdist.py", line 18, in walk_revctrl
for item in ep.load()(dirname):
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\normal\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_scm_file_finders_init.py", line 103, in find_files
res: list[str] = command(path)
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\normal\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_scm_file_finders\hg.py", line 50, in hg_find_files
toplevel = _hg_toplevel(path)
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\normal\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_scm_file_finders\hg.py", line 18, in _hg_toplevel
res = _run(
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\normal\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_scm_run_cmd.py", line 138, in run
res = subprocess.run(
File "c:\hostedtoolcache\windows\python\3.8.10\x64\lib\subprocess.py", line 495, in run
stdout, stderr = process.communicate(input, timeout=timeout)
File "c:\hostedtoolcache\windows\python\3.8.10\x64\lib\subprocess.py", line 1028, in communicate
stdout, stderr = self._communicate(input, endtime, timeout)
File "c:\hostedtoolcache\windows\python\3.8.10\x64\lib\subprocess.py", line 1401, in _communicate
raise TimeoutExpired(self.args, orig_timeout)
subprocess.TimeoutExpired: Command '['hg', 'root']' timed out after 20 seconds
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The problem seems related to the recently introduced timeout of 20 seconds (#808).

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It would be great if you could help or suggest a workaround...

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

The timeout will be increased,we learned that girl sometimes takes up to 25s,which exceeds the 20

[harendt]

I suggest to remove the timeout or make it configurable/removable via an environment variable. The git commands can sometimes be quite slow, which may largely depend on the system (for example when using Windows, VMs, or Docker containers).

[anakin87]

Unfortunately, the new error message is
subprocess.TimeoutExpired: Command '['hg', 'root']' timed out after 40 seconds

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

@anakin87 can the issue be sidestepped by involving hg before invoking the build step?

[anakin87]

@RonnyPfannschmidt thanks for the help...

I'm not an expert, but my impression is that I can do very little,
since we only install that problematic package (seqeval), which seems to be unmaintained.

If I am talking nonsense, please correct me and give me a suggestion...

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

@anakin87 hg root is a command that takes less than a second,if it happens in your environment then sometimes just running the command can fix the issue wrt delay