[Buildbot-devel] 0.8.3p1 queries

[John Earl]

Hi all

I've just upgraded from buildbot circa 0.7.8 to 0.8.3p1 and run into a 
couple of issues:


1) Like another poster here, I've run into trouble because we have a 
very large number of pickles that the UI code likes to scan every time 
you hit a URL. Not found it yet, but is there a setting that will tell 
the UI to ignore pickles older than a certain date, or else more than a 
certain number of pickles per builder? If not, I'll hack my own.

I'd rather not delete all the old build history, as we use buildbot as 
part of our release process; I'd rather have it there but "hidden".


2) More serious issue: buildbot-slave on Mac OSX appears to hang 
indefinitely on either buildbot-slave stop, or if the master does a 
reconfig. On a reconfig, I get something like:

2011-02-25 15:27:45+0000 [Broker,client] lost remote
2011-02-25 15:27:45+0000 [Broker,client] lost remote
2011-02-25 15:27:45+0000 [Broker,client] lost remote
2011-02-25 15:27:45+0000 [Broker,client] Lost connection to 
fry.airsource.co.uk:9989
2011-02-25 15:27:45+0000 [Broker,client] <twisted.internet.tcp.Connector 
instance at 0x59fa58> will retry in 3 seconds
2011-02-25 15:27:45+0000 [Broker,client] Stopping factory 
<buildslave.bot.BotFactory instance at 0x120fd78>
2011-02-25 15:27:49+0000 [-] Starting factory <buildslave.bot.BotFactory 
instance at 0x120fd78>
2011-02-25 15:27:49+0000 [-] Connecting to fry.airsource.co.uk:9989
2011-02-25 15:27:49+0000 [Uninitialized] Connection to 
fry.airsource.co.uk:9989 failed: Connection Refused
2011-02-25 15:27:49+0000 [Uninitialized] <twisted.internet.tcp.Connector 
instance at 0x59fa58> will retry in 8 seconds
2011-02-25 15:27:49+0000 [Uninitialized] Stopping factory 
<buildslave.bot.BotFactory instance at 0x120fd78>
2011-02-25 15:27:57+0000 [-] Starting factory <buildslave.bot.BotFactory 
instance at 0x120fd78>
2011-02-25 15:27:57+0000 [-] Connecting to fry.airsource.co.uk:9989

(and then nothing, even after the buildbot is fully restarted)

Any hints for how to debug this? A reconfig leaves the master down for 
about 60 seconds on our setup because we have several hundred builders 
that get reconfigured.

Mac has Twisted 10.2.0 and the master is Debian running 10.1.0




Cheers

John