On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:28:54PM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks for warning us about this! I quickly looked at some of the > reports and I can tell you with confidence that a lot of my FAIL reports > is bad. I don't think it's CP:D:B's fault but the VM's fault. It seems > like their local time is skewed/slowed/whatever and it causes confusion > when running the makefile. Here's one sample report: > > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2009/12/msg6478612.html > > I've now turned off the smoker on those VMs and is investigating the > time problem. I'm using NetBSD 5.0.1 and FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE on a > VirtualBox 3.0.12 host running Ubuntu 9.10. If anyone have any tips, > please let me know! > > P.S. Great use of your new regression analyzer! Big kudos to you :)
Using Vmware Server 2.0 on Ubuntu 9.04 ( and before that on Windows Server 2003 ) I noticed the time skew problems. I run ntpd on the vms which tends to resolve the issue. FreeBSD though is a bit more flunky. Even with ntpd running it generally skews out and ntpd will give up on trying to sync. On FreeBSD vms I disable ntpd and set a cron job as root to run every 5 minutes to execute "/etc/rc.d/ntpdate start" ( Actually, I have this wrapped in a shell script so I can redirect the stdout/stderr from that command to /dev/null, so that root doesn't get an email from cron every 5 minutes >:) ). Regarding the email subject, as far as I can tell from the reports I looked through they were all relating to time issues with Makefile, CP::D::Build wouldn't be involved CP::D::MM would. Cheers, -- Chris Williams aka BinGOs PGP ID 0x4658671F http://www.gumbynet.org.uk ==========================
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