[Buildbot-devel] "Connection lost in a non-clean fashion" / duplicate slave

[Harry Percival]

Hi there,

We've been running a build farm with a linux master and windows slaves 
for many years.  Have been experimenting with moving the slaves to 
Azure, and I'm seeing a lot of errors saying:

     remoteFailed: [Failure instance: Traceback (failure with no 
frames): <class 'twisted.internet.error.ConnectionLost'>: Connection to 
the other side was lost in a non-clean fashion.

Which abort the build.  In the twistd.log, I'm seeing these messages at 
around the same time:

     <timestamp> [Broker,<n>,<ip>] duplicate slave <slavename>; delaying 
new slave (IPv4Address(TCP, '<ip>', <port>)) and pinging old 
(IPv4Address(TCP, '<port>', <other-port>))
     <timestamp+10s> [Broker,<n-1>,<ip>] BuildSlave.detached(<slavename>)

What could be happening here?

The slaves are running Windows Server 2012R2 Datacenter.

I've had a look at this: 
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/development/tools/buildbot/buildbot-setup/buildbot-setup-buildbot-setup-for-windows/ 
and tried changing the buildbot.tax keepalive variable, no apparent change.

thanks for any help!

Harry

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