Hi I had a closer look into the problem: Looks like it started with this test: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/11/msg2588675.html
This is the first test which failed with empty reports. Many following test on s390x-linux-thread-multi 2.6.18-92.el5 for perl-5.8.8 failed, last failing test was http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/11/msg2589884.html There was always an unknown/fail-combination within two mails: This is the unknown for the first falling test: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/11/msg2588672.html But a few of the 5.8.8-thread still PASS in this time: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/11/msg2588866.html The 5.6.2 tests during this phase look quite normal. (Same box, same user, but different binary) I cannot see any 5.10.0 test-reports at all in this time. If I remember correctly I restarted testing at 6:22, because last report was sent at 4:18 and most smokers hung in WWW-Mechanize tests which was installed as a dependency for WWW-Contact. I stopped the running tests by doing a killall perl within the testuser until killall reported no perl processes available anymore. (all times are my local times) And I stopped it again 2 hours later because first smoker hung in WWW-Mechanize again. This is how to explain the timeframe of the erroneous reports. I checked the screen logs for the start at 6:22 and saw this for perl-5.8.8-thread: > There seems to be running another CPAN process (pid 7069). Contacting... > Other job is running. > Shall I try to run in degraded mode? (Y/n) [y] > Running in degraded mode (experimental). > Please report if something unexpected happens So looks like I missed one of the running perl processes even if I do not understand why. And I did not read the message carefully as I thought it is the CPAN-Message about outdated lockfile and entered y. My only chance is to blame the inventor of the experimental "degraded mode" ;-) So we can mark all the problems between November 10, 2008 21:23 and November 10, 2008 23:23 (www.nntp.perl.org time) as user error. Sorry, Oliver -- Oliver Paukstadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
