[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] the release gods are angry at python

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:43:25 -0700, Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:52 PM,  <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>>     >> The next releases of 2.6/3.0 are planned for April 2, just over a
>>     >> week from now.  There is much work that needs to be done.  The
>>     >> buildbots are in a pretty sad state and the gods are seeing too much
>>     >> red.
>>     >>
>>     >> http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/stable/
>>     >> http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/
>>
>>  Is there some reason the "g4 osx.4 trunk" buildbot isn't running?  When I
>>  checked it this morning it was idle with two pending.  I forced a run.  I
>>  checked later today and it showed five pending.  Now it shows 10 pending.
>>  It looks like its last run was about 18 hours ago.  You would think by now
>>  it would have been able to make another run.  It pings fine.
>
>I logged in to the machine an the buildbot is running.  I think what
>happens is that sometimes the master loses track of the slaves.  The
>fix requires restarting the master, but I didn't want to do that last
>night while there were still builds going on.  I'll try to find a
>quiet time tonight and restart the master.  I expect that will fix the
>problem.
>

There's a bug in some configurations (I have never managed to track down
the details) where the ping action actually prevents any further builds
from happening on that slave until the master is restarted.  Not sure if
this is related to the problem you're seeing here or not.

Jean-Paul