On 19 June 2018 at 22:55, Cyril Ferlicot D. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Since months now there are a lot of random failure on the CI making it > hard to work. > > There is different kind of failures: > - Network problems > - Failing tests > - Incomprehensible problems > > Now I don't see much failure due to Network. I suppose the Inria > infrastructure improved. > > Failing tests were corrected those past months and we see less and less > of them. > > Now the big problem are the incomprehensible crashes such as "The > workspace was not found" or "FileDoesNotExistException" or "pharo-vm/ is > already present". > > We just found the problem :) > > During the validation of the Bootstrap multiple tests are launched on > OSX/Windows/linux in parallel. Each task is on a different slave of the > Jenkins. But, apparently we discovered that two slaves could have the > same disk. Usually it does not cause any trouble since a job is only run > by one slave. But in this particular case, two slaves can be used by the > same job and mess with the resources of each other. > That sort of outside-the-box confounding factor is difficult and frustrating to track down. Great work guys. cheers -ben
