[Python-Dev] Status of the Buildbot fleet and related bugs

[David Bolen]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 3:53 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
>
>>    (1) issue 3864: FreeBSD testing hangs consistently.  According to the
>>        ticket this is a FreeBSD bug fixed in 6.4, so an OS upgrade
>>        on the buildslave would probably solve it.
>
> I think the particular issue mentioned in 3864  is fixed, in some sense:
> test_signal used to hang, but now just plain fails in a reasonable amount of
> time (~15 seconds) instead.  So at least the test_signal failure isn't
> preventing us from seeing the results of other tests.
>
> The big problem now on the FreeBSD buildbot is that test_multiprocessing
> reliably causes the whole test run to abort with 'Signal 12'.  Solving this
> may be as simple as just getting someone to install a copy of FreeBSD 6.2
> on an ssh-accessible machine so that the source of the error can be tracked
> down.

I could arrange ssh access to the build slave if that would help
anyone who wants to look into that.  Just contact me directly.

In terms of the overall release, I'm also fine with upgrading the
build slave to 6.4.  Or I could jump up to 7.2 instead.  When I first
brought the build slave up, 7.x wasn't finalized yet - not sure now
which release is more prevalent in use.

-- David