[Python-Dev] buildbot svn exceptions again...

[Bill Janssen]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> Bill Janssen wrote:
> > parc-leopard-1 (and most of the other builders) are failing the svn 
> > checkout with the following error:
> > 
> > svn: PROPFIND of '/projects/python/trunk': Could not resolve hostname
> > `svn.python.org': Temporary failure in name resolution
> > (http://svn.python.org)
> > 
> > When I log into that machine as "buildbot" and do the svn checkout 
> > manually using the following command
> > 
> > /usr/bin/svn checkout --non-interactive --no-auth-cache --revision
> > HEAD http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk build
> > 
> > it works fine.
> 
> That's a common OSX problem/bug. Processes occasionally lose the ability
> to resolve host names.

A workaround is to just put them in the /etc/hosts file.

Bill