RuntimeError: Failed to shutdown the live test server in 2 seconds. The server might be stuck or generating a slow response.

Another problem you might run into when testing Django apps with Selenium on Travis:

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ERROR: tearDownClass (autocomplete_light.tests.widget.WidgetTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/travis/build/yourlabs/django-autocomplete-light/autocomplete_light/tests/widget.py", line 29, in tearDownClass
    super(WidgetTestCase, cls).tearDownClass()
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/test/testcases.py", line 1148, in tearDownClass
    cls.server_thread.join()
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/test/testcases.py", line 1072, in join
    self.httpd.shutdown()
  File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/test/testcases.py", line 959, in shutdown
    "Failed to shutdown the live test server in 2 seconds. The "
RuntimeError: Failed to shutdown the live test server in 2 seconds. The server might be stuck or generating a slow response.

Apparently, two seconds are not enough wait for travis, sometimes. Unfortunnately, the 2 seconds wait is hard-coded into Django, not to mention that it’s in another thread which makes it even harder to fix in our projects.

The only solution I have found so far is a monkey-patch, which I implemented in django-autocomplete-light:

    # Patch for travis
    from django.test.testcases import StoppableWSGIServer


    def patient_shutdown(self):
        """
        Stops the serve_forever loop.

        Blocks until the loop has finished. This must be called while
        serve_forever() is running in another thread, or it will
        deadlock.
        """
        self._StoppableWSGIServer__serving = False
        if not self._StoppableWSGIServer__is_shut_down.wait(30 if os.environ.get('TRAVIS', False) else 2):
            raise RuntimeError(
                "Failed to shutdown the live test server in 2 seconds. The "
                "server might be stuck or generating a slow response.")
    StoppableWSGIServer.shutdown = patient_shutdown

This will give travis 30 seconds to shut down the server, and fix everything.

Note that this is not necessary starting Django 1.7. However, LiveServerTestCase won’t serve static files anymore in Django 1.7. So this is how you get a LiveServerTestCase that works on travis and all versions of Django:

    if VERSION[0] == 1 and VERSION[1] < 7:
        # Patch for travis
        from django.test.testcases import StoppableWSGIServer

        def patient_shutdown(self):
            Stops the serve_forever loop.…                                                                                                    6… 
            self._StoppableWSGIServer__serving = False
            if not self._StoppableWSGIServer__is_shut_down.wait(30):
                raise RuntimeError(
                    "Failed to shutdown the live test server in 2 seconds. The "
                    "server might be stuck or generating a slow response.")
        StoppableWSGIServer.shutdown = patient_shutdown
    else:
        # LiveServerTestCase doesn't serve static files in 1.7 anymore
        from django.contrib.staticfiles.testing import StaticLiveServerCase as LiveServerTestCase