xni/socorro — comment on commit 4ba985afc81e96f83ee05f2e96959dc7736f80e8
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By xni:

Hi!

I've found out, that if connection to the HBase is unavailable, some trace-back information is written in the monitor-stdout.log

Ex.:

```
Exception in thread priorityLoopingThread:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 532, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 484, in run
self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
File "/data/socorro/application/socorro/monitor/monitor.py", line 454, in priorityJobAllocationLoop
databaseConnection.rollback()
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'databaseConnection' referenced before assignment
```
```
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/data/socorro/application/scripts/startMonitor.py", line 32, in
m.start()
File "/data/socorro/application/socorro/monitor/monitor.py", line 486, in start
self.standardJobAllocationLoop()
File "/data/socorro/application/socorro/monitor/monitor.py", line 355, in standardJobAllocationLoop
databaseConnection.close()
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'databaseConnection' referenced before assignment
```

So, I've written a patch to fix this behavior. After applying this patch the missing connection is displayed in the log-file as follows:
```
2012-01-31 14:24:08,077 ERROR - MainThread - Traceback (most recent call last):
2012-01-31 14:24:08,078 ERROR - MainThread - File "/data/socorro/application/socorro/storage/hbaseClient.py", line 252, in __init__
self.make_connection(timeout=self.timeout)
2012-01-31 14:24:08,078 ERROR - MainThread - File "/data/socorro/application/socorro/storage/hbaseClient.py", line 276, in make_connection
self.transport.open()
2012-01-31 14:24:08,078 ERROR - MainThread - File "/data/socorro/thirdparty/thrift/transport/TTransport.py", line 145, in open
return self.__trans.open()
2012-01-31 14:24:08,078 ERROR - MainThread - File "/data/socorro/thirdparty/thrift/transport/TSocket.py", line 89, in open
raise TTransportException(type=TTransportException.NOT_OPEN, message=message)
2012-01-31 14:24:08,079 ERROR - MainThread - NoConnectionException: the connection is not viable. retries fail: No connection was made to HBase (2 tries): -Could not connect to crash-stats:9090
2012-01-31 14:24:08,100 CRITICAL - priorityLoopingThread - priorityLoopingThread - cannot connect to the database
```