[Buildbot-devel] Recovering from having wrong git installed on cygwin

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at v.igoro.us> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>>> Restarting the master seems to have helped this time, whew.
>>
>> That's very odd, if things were going wrong on the slave.
>
> It makes me wonder if there's also a bug in how the master tracks the
> state of the slave.
>
>> You're not running the master on Cygwin, right?  That's not supported..
>
> No, the master's on Ubuntu 12.04.  (The master doesn't
> work at all on Cygwin at the moment, it craps out on startup.)

Yeah, it flat-out doesn't work on Cygwin, hence not supporting it there ;)

I assume you had tried restarting the slave, to no avail?

Dustin