Re: [Qemu-devel] buildbot failure in qemu on default_openbsd_4.9

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 05:57:28PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 10/03/2011 06:15 PM, qemu@buildbot.b1-systems.de wrote:
> >The Buildbot has detected a new failure on builder default_openbsd_4.9 while building qemu.
> >Full details are available at:
> >  http://buildbot.b1-systems.de/qemu/builders/default_openbsd_4.9/builds/44
> >
> >Buildbot URL: http://buildbot.b1-systems.de/qemu/
> >
> >Buildslave for this Build: kraxel_openbsd49
> >
> >Build Reason: The Nightly scheduler named 'nightly_default' triggered this build
> >Build Source Stamp: [branch master] HEAD
> >Blamelist:
> >
> >BUILD FAILED: failed git
> 
> Is there a way to suppress buildbot failures when the failed stage
> is git?  Not a huge deal but seems like a potential improvement.

We've discussed adding custom Python configuration code to ignore these
failures.

Looking at the buildbot documentation there is a 'retry' parameter for
version control which "specifies a tuple of (delay, repeats) which means
that when a full VC checkout fails, it should be retried up to repeats
times, waiting delay seconds between attempts".  This sounds like it
could work.

I suggest setting retry = (5 * 60, 3) so that we wait 5 minutes after a
failed git fetch and try 3 times.

Daniel: In the buildbot 0.8.3p1-1 docs I found the 'retry' parameter
under 4.11.3 Source Checkout.  Is it possible to add this parameter?

Thanks,
Stefan