Hi, On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:32:02 +0200 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote: > I just ran into a minor annoyance with buildd-uploader after one of our > sparc64 buildds crashed. buildd-uploader got stuck consuming lots of CPU time > after being invoked by the cronjob after the machine was recovered after the > crash. > > Looking into the daemon.log file, there was also no output from the uploader > script to be seen. Since buildd-uploader worked fine for the other instances > of the buildd on the same machine, I assumed it was some issue specific to > this particular buildd user. > > Turns out, the lockfile was still there and keeping the buildd-uploader busy. > After deleting the lockfile, the uploader works as expected again: > > root@atlantis:~# su - buildd > buildd@atlantis:~$ touch buildd-uploader.lock > buildd@atlantis:~$ /usr/bin/buildd-uploader > ^C # stuck here > buildd@atlantis:~$ rm buildd-uploader.lock > buildd@atlantis:~$ /usr/bin/buildd-uploader > buildd@atlantis:~$ > > I guess buildd-uploader should be modified to check for stale lockfiles and > remove them.
could this be the same problem as #577421? Thanks! cheers, josch
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