[Buildbot-devel] 0.8.3p1 queries

[John Earl]

Documentation seems to suggest those will delete the old pickles, which 
is undesirable -- but it's a bit unclear. Off to read the code...


On 25/02/2011 17:57, John Hopkins wrote:
> On 11-02-25 08:11 AM, John Earl wrote:
>> 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".
>
> I'm not yet sure how these work, but look at the buildHorizon,
> changeHorizon, logHorizon settings.
>
> John
>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
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