[Buildbot-devel] Stochastic failure of rm -rf in CVS steps

[Charles Bacon]

That looks exactly like it.  Thanks, sorry I didn't think to check the  
tracker first.  I'll try the usepty=0 workaround listed in that ticket.


Cheers,

Charles

On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:55:40 -0500, Charles Bacon  
> <bacon at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> I moved my buildbot from one machine to another, and I am now getting
>> intermittent failures of the CVS update/checkout steps.  I'm really
>> baffled, because the failing step appears to be the rm -rf: http://buildbot.globus.org/builders/kempt-complete/builds/1031/steps/cvs/logs/stdio
>>
>> The thing is, I can't come up with a reason why rm -rf would return a
>> -1.  It never does when I run the commands by hand, and it usually
>> works when buildbot tries it.  The failure rate looks to be about 10%
>> or lower.  The twistd.log has this extra info:
>
> You're probably seeing a known issue described in several tickets in  
> the
> issue tracker (eg <http://buildbot.net/trac/ticket/255>).
>
> Jean-Paul
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