Fixes a timeout on properties access (bugfix)

checkbox-ng/checkbox_ng/launcher/agent.py

@@ -145,7 +145,8 @@ def invoked(self, ctx):
             protocol_config={
                 "allow_all_attrs": True,
                 "allow_setattr": True,
-                "sync_request_timeout": 1,
+                # this is the max server to client attr accessing speed,
+                "sync_request_timeout": 30,
                 "propagate_SystemExit_locally": True,
             },
         )

checkbox-ng/checkbox_ng/launcher/controller.py

@@ -227,7 +227,11 @@
     def connect_and_run(self, host, port=18871):
         config = rpyc.core.protocol.DEFAULT_CONFIG.copy()
         config["allow_all_attrs"] = True
-        config["sync_request_timeout"] = 120
+        # this is the max client to server attr accessing speed, unbounded (-1)
+        # to avoid timing out on any attr request on an enstablished call. This
+        # way even particularly slow @properties won't fail
+        config["sync_request_timeout"] = -1
+
         keep_running = False
         server_msg = None
         self._prepare_transports()

checkbox-ng/checkbox_ng/launcher/stages.py

@@ -762,16 +762,16 @@
                     _logger.error(
                         _(
                             "Problem with a '%s' report using '%s' exporter "
-                            "sent to '%s' transport. Reason %s"
+                            "sent to '%s' transport. Reason: %s"
                         ),
                         name,
                         exporter_id,
                         transport.url,
-                        exc,
+                        repr(exc),
                     )
                     import traceback
 
-                    traceback.print_tb(exc)
+                    traceback.print_exception(exc)
 
                 self._reset_auto_submission_retries()
                 done_sending = True