[Buildbot-devel] unexpected master shutdown in 0.8.7?

[Dan Kegel]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at v.igoro.us> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>> It just happened again.  This time I looked at the log file instead of just
>> the screen, and saw
>> 2012-11-30 08:37:21-0800 [-] Received SIGTERM, shutting down.
>> but I have no idea where that came from.
>
> Yep, that's a symptom of 'buildbot start' (spurious signals).  It
> seems to have become more prevalent lately, for reasons I can't
> fathom.  But Tom's fix addresses it.

That's odd, since I start buildbot with
    exec twistd --pidfile $dir/twistd.pid --nodaemon --no_save -y
$dir/buildbot.tac
having been burnt by a 'buildbot start' bug in the past (well, and
since I use upstart now, which does not take kindly to forks).