make run: KeyError: 'token' error

[mrplow]

Sorry if this is on my end but I'm not sure why this is failing.
The make run command is failing with a KeyError: 'token' error. My ~/.bashrc file has the export line setup correctly I believe. That being said, after running make install limbo runs just fine ;)

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Adding six 1.8.0 to easy-install.pth file

Using /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Finished processing dependencies for limbo==3.0.0a2
make clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ubuntu/slask'
rm -rf build dist limbo.egg-info
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/slask'
bin/limbo
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/limbo", line 17, in <module>
    main(args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/limbo-3.0.0a2-py2.7.egg/limbo/limbo.py", line 165, in main
    server = init_server(args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/limbo-3.0.0a2-py2.7.egg/limbo/limbo.py", line 154, in init_server
    slack = Client(config["token"])
KeyError: 'token'
make: *** [run] Error 1
ubuntu@ip-172-31-28-218:~/slask$ echo $SLACK_TOKEN
xoxb-REDACTED28-REDACTEDREDACTEDREDACTEDT

[llimllib]

Thanks for reporting, and sorry you're hitting a bug.

The usual cause of this problem is that you've set the environment variable but not exported it. For example:

$ SLACK_TOKEN=<my_token>

$ bin/limbo
2015-02-24 09:39:46,979:DEBUG:config: {'loglevel': 'DEBUG'}
<... logging omitted ...>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/limbo", line 17, in <module>
    main(args)
  File "/Users/llimllib/.virtualenvs/limbo/lib/python2.7/site-packages/limbo-3.0.0a1-py2.7.egg/limbo/limbo.py", line 165, in main
    server = init_server(args)
  File "/Users/llimllib/.virtualenvs/limbo/lib/python2.7/site-packages/limbo-3.0.0a1-py2.7.egg/limbo/limbo.py", line 154, in init_server
    slack = Client(config["token"])
KeyError: 'token'

But after;

$ export SLACK_TOKEN=<my_token>

bin/limbo works correctly. Are you certain that the variable is being exported? Can you paste the log output of bin/limbo, which should show the configuration it finds?

[llimllib]

I added an error message to the code that prints a more informative error in this case.

[mrplow]

Its strange, I only get the error while running sudo make run
Python isn't seeing any env variables while run as sudo?
The env variable is saved in ~/.bashrc and the machine has been rebooted even.
Running
export SLACK_TOKEN=MYREALAPITOKEN
before sudo make run doesn't help either.

Using /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Searching for six==1.8.0
Best match: six 1.8.0
Adding six 1.8.0 to easy-install.pth file

Using /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Finished processing dependencies for limbo==3.0.0a2
make clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ubuntu/slask'
rm -rf build dist limbo.egg-info
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/slask'
bin/limbo
2015-02-24 17:10:39,394:ERROR:Unable to find a slack token. The environment variables
limbo sees are:
{}

and the current config is:
{}

Try setting your bot's slack token with:

export SLACK_TOKEN=<your-slack-bot-token>

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/limbo", line 17, in <module>
    main(args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/limbo-3.0.0a2-py2.7.egg/limbo/limbo.py", line 184, in main
    server = init_server(args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/limbo-3.0.0a2-py2.7.egg/limbo/limbo.py", line 160, in init_server
    slack = Client(config["token"])
KeyError: 'token'
make: *** [run] Error 1

If I run bin/slasklimbo it runs fine and I have no errors

[llimllib]

When you run sudo, you're actually starting another shell as root, which means that it comes with a whole new set of environment variables, which doesn't include the ones in your user environment. That's why limbo can't find them.

I recommend that you either avoid running limbo as root or figure out how to set the environment variables such that the process will have access to them.

For example, I use an upstart script to start my instance of limbo, it looks like:

start on net-device-up
respawn
respawn limit 3 30

env SLACK_TOKEN=xoxb-<rest of token>
env LIMBO_LOGLEVEL=INFO
env LIMBO_LOGFILE=/var/log/limbo

exec /srv/limbo/bin/limbo

[llimllib]

Marking as closed, but feel free to keep asking for help, and thanks again for reporting!

[mrplow]

Thanks, I'll steal use your upstart script.