Hey Julian, Thank you so much for looking into this! Once this one gets fixed, there will be one less source of blood pressure spikes.
-- Stefan^2. On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Julian Foad <julianf...@btopenworld.com> wrote: > Dear builds.at.a.o people, > > The build slave http://ci.apache.org/buildslaves/lares_ubuntu > has spurious failures. This slave is used for RAT build testing for the > Subversion project, and for several other builders. > > The failure mode is it sometimes fails to see the stdout from programs it > runs (such as 'svn info --xml' or 'git --version'). Examples can be seen in > about 1 in 10 of the builds it attempts. Look at the "stdio log" of > attempts that failed on step 1. Recent examples: > > http://ci.apache.org/builders/svn-trunk-rat-report/builds/958 > http://ci.apache.org/builders/log4j2-nightly/builds/210 > http://ci.apache.org/builders/openjpa-1.2.x-docs/builds/201 > http://ci.apache.org/builders/openjpa-1.0.x-docs/builds/197 > > An example of a broken attempt, from > > http://ci.apache.org/builders/log4j2-nightly/builds/210/steps/git/logs/stdio > [[[ > git --version > in dir /home/buildslave2/slave2/log4j2-nightly/build (timeout 1200 secs) > watching logfiles {} > argv: ['git', '--version'] > environment: > [...] > using PTY: True > program finished with exit code 0 > elapsedTime=0.011104 > ]]] > > An example of a working attempt (note the "git version 1.9.1" line), from > > http://ci.apache.org/builders/log4j2-nightly/builds/211/steps/git/logs/stdio > [[[ > git --version > in dir /home/buildslave2/slave2/log4j2-nightly/build (timeout 1200 secs) > watching logfiles {} > argv: ['git', '--version'] > environment: > [...] > using PTY: True > git version 1.9.1 > program finished with exit code 0 > elapsedTime=0.011104 > ]]] > > This has been happening for weeks/months. For a long time we in the > Subversion project were wondering if it was a bug in 'svn info --xml', but > now I see it is not specific to Subversion and also affects other projects. > > Please can someone look into it? > > - Julian >
