From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37152) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bblc0-0003rf-D1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 05:33:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bblbx-0007AF-5d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 05:33:44 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-x233.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::233]:36256) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bblbw-00079j-Up for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 05:33:41 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-x233.google.com with SMTP id q128so112376060wma.1 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 02:33:40 -0700 (PDT) References: From: Alex =?utf-8?Q?Benn=C3=A9e?= In-reply-to: Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 10:33:48 +0100 Message-ID: <87eg5hw3k3.fsf@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] travis builds: failing because of duff data in ccache cache? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: QEMU Developers Peter Maydell writes: > Hi; since commit 4b887ae travis builds have been persistently > failing on one particular config with the error: > exec.o: could not read symbols: File truncated > trying to link the mipsn32-linux-user binary. > > My theory is that the problem here is that: > * for one build, the build host ran out of disk space or otherwise > hiccupped, resulting in a truncated .o file > * since travis saves the ccache cache across builds, the truncated .o > file has persisted and now every build is going to fail the same > way (until something gets committed that results in exec.c or one > of its included headers changing) > > It looks like there's a way to manually clear the cache, so that > seems like a good first step to see if it fixes things: > https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/caching/#Clearing-Caches > > Could somebody with admin access to our travis config try this, > please? I've reset the cache for the master branch and restarted the build. FWIW anyone who is a member of the QEMU project on Github should have the permissions to tweak the Travis caches for the project. > > thanks > -- PMM -- Alex Bennée