[Buildbot-devel] Unclean shutdown of buildbot followed by another build with the same number results in mismatched text output for the bulid

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Brandon Ehle<azverkan at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the cases where the webpage is reporting the incorrect stdio output
> for the build, it seems to pulling from the compressed log instead of
> the newly written uncompressed log.
>
> I can think of a couple of ways to try and fix this, but I'm also
> curious as to why the buildbot master seems to be forgetting builds
> upon restarting.

This is basically a consequence of the way buildbot's "database" works
-- logfiles are written byte by byte, because they can be very long,
while builds are written all at once, being pickles, with the added
complexity of writing and then compressing logfiles.

This should be fixed, and I would love to see a patch to do so.

Dustin

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