2010/1/20 Martin Bligh <[email protected]>:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:01 AM, John Admanski <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Eric Li(李咏竹) <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Agree, in a failure scenario, run test in verbose mode and you will get the
>>> ssh command.
>>> Then you would have to copy paste the ssh command and retry.
>>> If the "-q" patch was pushed in, you had to remove the -q option in order to
>>> see what warn/error messages are from the ssh command.
>>>
>>> Its not a perfect working scenario. I am ok with it, but I respect some
>>> other people might not be ok with it.
>>
>> I don't like the idea of automatically re-running a command that
>> actually does something; for example if the command is launching the
>> autotest client and the connection gets killed for some reason or
>> another, we don't necessarily want to be running that command again.
>>
>> The failures mentioned here so far all talk about failures which occur
>> when establishing the connection, but it's also possible to get ssh
>> errors (i.e. exit status 255 errors) after the remote command has been
>> launched; so it's quite possible we could actually be running the
>> remote command multiple times.
>>
>> It would probably be safer to run something like "true" in verbose
>> mode. If the problem is a non-transient one involving the
>> establishment of the connection then you would still get the logs you
>> need.
>
> That sounds fine, but don't we do the retry at the moment anyway?
>

Do we? I know we used to, but I thought we removed it (at least
partially for the reasons I complained about).

-- John
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