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On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Andy Doan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/16/2012 02:26 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Andy Doan wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/15/2012 01:04 PM, Alexander Sack wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --------------------
>>>>>>>> snowball06/08
>>>>>>>> --------------------
>>>>>>>> http://192.168.1.10/lava-server/scheduler/job/35179
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> eth0 failed to come up. We see this a lot with snowballs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "We see this a lot" -- do we have actual numbers?  To everyone:
>>>>>> assuming
>>>>>> not, what can we do to get some?
>>>
>>>
>>> I keep the log of health check failures at:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnxpY5uv-BlNdG9zYTdDLWZWRVFGaWFxQzRLNWtaNmc#gid=8
>>>
>>> In the past 5 days its happened 4 times on snowball.
>>>
>>> Prior to that. In a span of 25 health failures snowball accounted
>>> for 8 of the failures. Half of those failures look like this
>>> problem. So this snowball issue is accounting for around 16% of our
>>> health check failures.
>>
>>
>> So it works sometimes, but not others? Sounds like a h/w bug.

could be hwbug, but driver bugs can also give undeterministic
behaviour in full system stacks from what i experience (racy things
etc.). Since we are in software business I feel we should look closer
at the software side before disregarding something as hwbug ...

How can we nail the source of this? Maybe we have a kernel that we
have the guts feeling is better than the 12.02 and could give that a
stress test try?

>
>
> That's interesting. It happens most often, but is not limited to snowball06.
> I also have records of this failure on:
>
>  snowball01, snowball03, snowball08
>
> But 6 of the last 8 failures of this type were snowball06
>
>> Are there logs?
>
>
> Here's the normal way it fails:
>
>  http://validation.linaro.org/lava-server/scheduler/job/35517/log_file
>



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