Step was canceled when trying to run server

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Hello,
I want to run selenium tests on circleci and therefore I have to start my backend, which is django app and frontend (angular app served by gulp). The problem is that after starting them I get “Step was canceled” message. I’ve checked other threads but haven’t find any fix. Is there any workaround how to fix it?

docker:
- image: circleci/python:3.6-node-browsers
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- run:
      name: Run backend
      command: |
        # Run backend
        cd project
        python3 manage.py migrate --fake-initial app
        python3 manage.py runserver
        background: true
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Hi there,

Welcome to the community!

Can you give more details about “Step was canceled”? Where are you seeing this? Any links would be helpful.

3

Hello,

for example, when starting django webserver it shows this

python3 manage.py runserver

Operations to perform:
  Apply all migrations: app
Running migrations:
  No migrations to apply.
Watching for file changes with StatReloader
Performing system checks...

System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
July 04, 2019 - 10:25:52
Django version 2.2.3, using settings 'settings.django'
Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
Step was canceled

I’m seeing this in the log of the step job.

4

I think I have seen this message before with backgrounded tasks - I suspect however your server is still running, and the message can be ignored.

5

Could you try to make the command one long command?

i.e.

cd project && python3 manage.py migrate && python3 manage.py runserver

I am not sure if background:true knows how to handle multiple commands.

6

The same thing happens when running as one long command.

7

Hi! were you able to resolve the issue? I want to run “python manage.py test” after running django server(python manage.py runserver) for selenium headless webdriver. facing the same issue.