[Buildbot-devel] problem "want to start build, but we don't have a remote"

[Stephen Davis]

On Jul 3, 2007, at 10:32 PM, Brian Warner wrote:

> Timothee Besset <ttimo at idsoftware.com> writes:
>
>> I'm getting a weird situation where one of the builders  
>> accumulates the
>> build pending but never starts them. We always use the http  
>> interface to
>> force the build to start, and now it just says 'n pending', 'n+1  
>> pending'.
>
> It kind of sounds like a reconfig took place and the new Builder  
> failed to
> connect up with the existing slave. Maybe a race condition in the  
> reconfig
> code?

Could this be a case of the master being offline for long enough that  
the build slave's "progressive backoff" has now reached a ridiculous  
value?  The slave will reconnect *at some point* but I think it'd be  
better if the progressive backoff had an upper limit (or, if it has  
one now, that it be lowered).

Or, just restart the build slave and see if it all hooks up  
properly.  The master's log might tell you if the slave did try to  
connect but failed.  The slave's log certainly should.

stephen