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1#!/usr/bin/env python32# Copyright (c) 2018-present The Bitcoin Core developers3# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying4# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.5"""Check that it's not possible to start a second bitcoind instance using the same datadir or wallet."""6import random7import string9from test_framework.test_framework import BitcoinTestFramework10from test_framework.test_node import (11BITCOIN_PID_FILENAME_DEFAULT,12ErrorMatch,13)15class FilelockTest(BitcoinTestFramework):16def set_test_params(self):17self.setup_clean_chain = True18self.num_nodes = 219self.uses_wallet = None21def setup_network(self):22self.add_nodes(self.num_nodes, extra_args=None)23self.nodes[0].start()24self.nodes[0].wait_for_rpc_connection()26def run_test(self):27datadir = self.nodes[0].chain_path28blocksdir = self.nodes[0].blocks_path29self.log.info(f"Using datadir {datadir}")30self.log.info(f"Using blocksdir {blocksdir}")32self.log.info("Check that we can't start a second bitcoind instance using the same datadir")33expected_msg = f"Error: Cannot obtain a lock on directory {datadir}. {self.config['environment']['CLIENT_NAME']} is probably already running."34self.nodes[1].assert_start_raises_init_error(extra_args=[f'-datadir={self.nodes[0].datadir_path}', '-noserver'], expected_msg=expected_msg)36self.log.info("Check that we can't start a second bitcoind instance using the same blocksdir")37expected_msg = f"Error: Cannot obtain a lock on directory {blocksdir}. {self.config['environment']['CLIENT_NAME']} is probably already running."38self.nodes[1].assert_start_raises_init_error(extra_args=[f'-blocksdir={self.nodes[0].datadir_path}', '-noserver'], expected_msg=expected_msg)40self.log.info("Check that cookie and PID file are not deleted when attempting to start a second bitcoind using the same datadir/blocksdir")41cookie_file = datadir / ".cookie"42assert cookie_file.exists() # should not be deleted during the second bitcoind instance shutdown43pid_file = datadir / BITCOIN_PID_FILENAME_DEFAULT44assert pid_file.exists()46if self.is_wallet_compiled():47wallet_name = ''.join([random.choice(string.ascii_lowercase) for _ in range(6)])48self.nodes[0].createwallet(wallet_name=wallet_name)49wallet_dir = self.nodes[0].wallets_path50self.log.info("Check that we can't start a second bitcoind instance using the same wallet")51expected_msg = f"Error: SQLiteDatabase: Unable to obtain an exclusive lock on the database, is it being used by another instance of {self.config['environment']['CLIENT_NAME']}?"52self.nodes[1].assert_start_raises_init_error(extra_args=[f'-walletdir={wallet_dir}', f'-wallet={wallet_name}', '-noserver'], expected_msg=expected_msg, match=ErrorMatch.PARTIAL_REGEX)54if __name__ == '__main__':55FilelockTest(__file__).main()
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