Stefan Fuhrmann wrote on Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 15:03:09 +0100: > 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. >
Isn't there a way to mark the build as purple (buildbot-level problem) as opposed to red (project-level problem) when the 'git --version' or 'svn info --xml' step fails? Daniel > -- 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 > >
