[Buildbot-devel] Re: [Python-Dev] Two buildbot slaves wedged

[Neal Norwitz]

On 3/18/06, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> svn got confused trying to incorporate updates to the email pkg.  Slaves
>
>     sparc solaris10 gcc trunk
> and
>     x86 gentoo trunk
>
> got stuck in their trunk "updating" steps for 7 hours, presumably as a result.
>
> I killed those builds, and tried to start new builds on those slaves.
> There was no effect apart from their "pending" count rising from 6 to
> 7.  They respond to pings, but won't start another build.

I've seen this happen a few times.  It seems the only way to fix this
is to restart the master which I did.  After the restart, all the
pending changes are lost, so I forced a rebuild on both machines.

n