[users at bb.net] [SPAM] How to debug why the buildmaster won't start a build?

[Neil Gilmore]

Alan,

Does your setup have a web UI? If so, are you seeing builds being 
queued? Big difference between a queued build not starting and builds 
not getting queued at all...

Neil Gilmore
grammatech.com

On 6/12/2017 11:12 PM, alan somers wrote:
> I have a buildmaster with one DockerLatentWorker and two builders.
> Each builder has two change sources: a GitPoller and a
> GitHubPullrequestPoller.  Each builder also has two schedulers: an
> AnyBranchScheduler for a few select branches and an AnyBranchScheduler
> for pull requests.  I also have Github hooks setup to push commit
> notifications into the buildmaster.  There is a WorkerLock with a
> maxCount of 1 that is shared by one step of both builders'
> BuilderConfigs.
>
> Everything was working fine until today, but now the buildmaster never
> attempts to kick off a build.  I can see from twistd.log that the
> GitHub hook is still working, and I see log entries like "added
> buildset 183 to database".  However, whereas normally that entry would
> be followed up by a "starting build" entry, now there is nothing.
> There aren't any errors; there's just nothing at all.
>
> How can I debug this problem?  I have Manhole working, but I don't
> know what to look for.  Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> Buildless in Boulder,
> -Alan
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