Set cwd for volttron and agents (eclipse-volttron#169)

* update python version to 3.10

* fix for issue 167

* update python version to 3.10 and ubuntu to 22.04

.github/workflows/deploy-pre-release.yml

@@ -13,15 +13,15 @@ defaults:
 env:
   LANG: en_US.utf-8
   LC_ALL: en_US.utf-8
-  PYTHON_VERSION: '3.8'
+  PYTHON_VERSION: '3.10'
   PROJECT_NAME: test-release-actions
   RUNS_ON: ubuntu-20.04
 
 jobs:
 
   bump_version:
     environment: test_env
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     steps:
       - run: echo "🎉 The job was automatically triggered by a ${{ github.event_name }} event."
       - run: echo "🐧 This job is now running on a ${{ runner.os }} server hosted by GitHub!"

.github/workflows/downstream-tests-responses.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   test-response:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
     steps:
       - name: Repository Dispatch Triggered

.github/workflows/run-downstream-tests.yml

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
         repo: [ eclipse-volttron/volttron-listener, eclipse-volttron/volttron-testing ]
           # , 'VOLTTRON/volttron-openadr-ven' ]
 
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
     steps:
         - run: env

.github/workflows/run-tests.yml

@@ -21,18 +21,13 @@ defaults:
 env:
   LANG: en_US.utf-8
   LC_ALL: en_US.utf-8
-  PYTHON_VERSION: '3.8'
+  PYTHON_VERSION: '3.10'
   PROJECT_NAME: volttron-core
 
 jobs:
 
   run-tests:
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        os: ["ubuntu-20.04", "ubuntu-22.04"]
-        python: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
-
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
     steps:
       - run: echo "🎉 The job was automatically triggered by a ${{ github.event_name }} event."

pyproject.toml

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ packages = [
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 poetry = "^1.2.2"
-python = "^3.8"
+python = "^3.10"
 pyzmq = "^22.3.0"
 gevent = "^21.12.0"
 PyYAML = "^6.0"

src/volttron/server/__main__.py

@@ -129,16 +129,20 @@
 def start_volttron_process(opts):
     """Start the main volttron process.
 
-    Typically this function is used from main.py and just uses the argparser's
+    Typically, this function is used from main.py and just uses the argparser's
     Options arguments as inputs.   It also can be called with a dictionary.  In
     that case the dictionaries keys are mapped into a value that acts like the
     args options.
     """
     if isinstance(opts, dict):
         opts = type("Options", (), opts)()
-        # vip_address is meant to be a list so make it so.
-        if not isinstance(opts.vip_address, list):
-            opts.vip_address = [opts.vip_address]
+
+    # Change working dir
+    os.chdir(opts.volttron_home)
+
+    # vip_address is meant to be a list so make it so.
+    if not isinstance(opts.vip_address, list):
+        opts.vip_address = [opts.vip_address]
     if opts.log:
         opts.log = config.expandall(opts.log)
     if opts.log_config:

src/volttron/server/aip.py

@@ -1241,6 +1241,7 @@ def start_agent(self, agent_uuid):
         execenv.execute(
             argv,
             env=environ,
+            cwd=os.path.join(self.install_dir, vip_identity),
             close_fds=True,
             stdin=open(os.devnull),
             stdout=PIPE,