Re: [PATCH] .gitlab-ci.d/windows: Work-around timeout and OpenGL problems of the MSYS2 jobs

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 04/01/2023 23.01, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 at 12:36, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> The windows jobs (especially the 32-bit job) recently started to
>> hit the timeout limit. Bump it a little bit to ease the situation
>> (80 minutes is quite long already - OTOH, these jobs do not have to
>> wait for a job from the container stage to finish, so this should
>> still be OK).
>>
>> Additionally, some update on the container side recently enabled
>> OpenGL in these jobs - but the corresponding code fails to compile.
>> Thus disable OpenGL here for the time being until someone figured
>> out the proper fix in the shader code for this.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   Now that the timeout and OpenGL problems are gone, the 64-bit is
>>   working fine for me again. However, I'm still seeing random issues
>>   with the 32-bit job ... not sure whether it's a problem on the
>>   QEMU side or whether the builders are currently instable, since
>>   the issues do not reproduce reliably...
>>
>>   .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml | 7 ++++---
>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> Thanks; applied to master on the assumption it will improve the
> CI situation. I found that the msys2-32bit job still timed out
> at 1h20, though:
> 
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/3555245586

I just gave it a try again, too, and for me, it finished within 65 minutes:

  https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu/-/jobs/3557600268

... let's keep looking for a while, maybe it's ok in most cases now, but if 
not, we have to consider something else.

  Thomas