From e3f640c7bf29c695b6c36d97077e3b81005f2e42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pablo Hoffman Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:53:32 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] added FAQ entry about scrapy deploy issue on Mac + Python 2.5 --- docs/faq.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst index 1e969af69..57d1a35e7 100644 --- a/docs/faq.rst +++ b/docs/faq.rst @@ -245,3 +245,9 @@ How can I instruct a spider to stop itself? Raise the :exc:`~scrapy.exceptions.CloseSpider` exception from a callback. For more info see: :exc:`~scrapy.exceptions.CloseSpider`. + +I'm getting a `OSError: [Errno 4] Interrupted system call` on ``scrapy deploy`` +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +This only appears to happen on Mac OS X and Python 2.5. Upgrading to Python 2.6 +(or above) is known to fix the issue.