[Python-Dev] funky buildbot

[Bill Janssen]

David Bolen <db3l.net at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm trying to get a new buildbot in the swim of things, and it keeps
> > getting into this state where the buildslave process seems caught in an
> > endless loop.  Perhaps someone here knows why?
> 
> Do you have any information as to what it is doing while in the loop?

Not much.  The twistd log shows that it is, in fact, trying to reconnect
to the build master.  It's just chewing up 100% CPU.  Could just be
updates to the master that are doing this, but my other (PPC) buildbots
seem OK with it.

Bill

> I think the only obvious "looping" I've seen with any of my buildbots
> is a loop while trying to attach to the master, either because the
> master was down/unreachable, rejecting connections (bad
> user/password), not yet configured for my buildbot, or occasionally
> because it thought the buildbot was still attached.  In that latter
> case I just had to wait long enough for the status page to switch from
> idle to disconnected and then try again.
> 
> -- David
> 
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