Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: PGBuildfarm member narwhal Branch HEAD Status changed from OK to InstallCheck failure]

2007-04-27 Thread Dave Page
Tom Lane wrote: > I concur it's too regular to be a hardware issue. The VMware idea is > a bit plausible though. If that's it, we ought to see failures of this > ilk on all four animals sooner or later ... I've run full disk scans in both Windows VMs, and forced an fsck of the host just to be on

Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: PGBuildfarm member narwhal Branch HEAD Status changed from OK to InstallCheck failure]

2007-04-27 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Is this the same physical machine as narwhal? > Yes, it is. It's an FC6 box running VMWare server, with a Win 2k3r2 VM > and a Vista ultimate VM, both with mingw and msvc animals. > I'm still not convinced it's a hardware problem - aside

Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: PGBuildfarm member narwhal Branch HEAD Status changed from OK to InstallCheck failure]

2007-04-27 Thread Dave Page
Tom Lane wrote: > Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I've been seeing this failure intermittently on Narwhal HEAD, and once >> on 8.1. Other branches have been OK, as have other animals running on >> the same physical box. Narwhal-HEAD is run more often than any other >> builds however. > >

Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: PGBuildfarm member narwhal Branch HEAD Status changed from OK to InstallCheck failure]

2007-04-26 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been seeing this failure intermittently on Narwhal HEAD, and once > on 8.1. Other branches have been OK, as have other animals running on > the same physical box. Narwhal-HEAD is run more often than any other > builds however. Oh, this is interesting:

[HACKERS] [Fwd: PGBuildfarm member narwhal Branch HEAD Status changed from OK to InstallCheck failure]

2007-04-26 Thread Dave Page
This was another occurance of the strange create index failure on Narwhal - unfortunately, despite having 'keep_error_builds' => 1 in my BF config it seems to have removed the tree so I can't get the dump that Tom wanted. Does anyone know why the keep_error_builds option didn't work in this case?

Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: PGBuildfarm member narwhal Branch HEAD Status changed from OK to InstallCheck failure]

2007-04-23 Thread Dave Page
Dave Page wrote: If you want to poke at it, I'd suggest changing the ERROR to PANIC (it's in bufmgr.c) to cause a core dump, run installchecks till you get a panic, and then look around in the dump to see what you can find. Well, in typical fashion after 25+ runs this morning there's not a fa

Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: PGBuildfarm member narwhal Branch HEAD Status changed from OK to InstallCheck failure]

2007-04-22 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> I was afraid of that. Well, at least get a dump of page 104 in that >> index so we can see what's on-disk. > Sure - I'll have to try with 8.1/8.2 unless you have a pg_filedump > that'll work with -HEAD? No, I don't, but a plain hex/asci

Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: PGBuildfarm member narwhal Branch HEAD Status changed from OK to InstallCheck failure]

2007-04-22 Thread Dave Page
Tom Lane wrote: Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom Lane wrote: If you want to poke at it, I'd suggest changing the ERROR to PANIC (it's in bufmgr.c) to cause a core dump, run installchecks till you get a panic, and then look around in the dump to see what you can find. It'd be particular

Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: PGBuildfarm member narwhal Branch HEAD Status changed from OK to InstallCheck failure]

2007-04-22 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> If you want to poke at it, I'd suggest changing the ERROR to PANIC >> (it's in bufmgr.c) to cause a core dump, run installchecks till you >> get a panic, and then look around in the dump to see what you can find. >> It'd be particularly int

Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: PGBuildfarm member narwhal Branch HEAD Status changed from OK to InstallCheck failure]

2007-04-22 Thread Dave Page
Tom Lane wrote: > Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I've been seeing this failure intermittently on Narwhal HEAD, and once >> on 8.1. Other branches have been OK, as have other animals running on >> the same physical box. Narwhal-HEAD is run more often than any other >> builds however. > >>

Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: PGBuildfarm member narwhal Branch HEAD Status changed from OK to InstallCheck failure]

2007-04-21 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been seeing this failure intermittently on Narwhal HEAD, and once > on 8.1. Other branches have been OK, as have other animals running on > the same physical box. Narwhal-HEAD is run more often than any other > builds however. > Anyone have any idea wha

[HACKERS] [Fwd: PGBuildfarm member narwhal Branch HEAD Status changed from OK to InstallCheck failure]

2007-04-21 Thread Dave Page
I've been seeing this failure intermittently on Narwhal HEAD, and once on 8.1. Other branches have been OK, as have other animals running on the same physical box. Narwhal-HEAD is run more often than any other builds however. Anyone have any idea what might be wrong? It seems unlikely to be a hard