[webkit-dev] Gtk 32-bit Release Bot Wedged

[Eric Seidel]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Eric Seidel <eseidel at google.com> wrote:
> We have various other bot support tools checked in under:
> http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/WebKitTools/BuildSlaveSupport/
> and
> http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/WebKitTools/EWSTools
>
> You should feel encouraged to add more.
>
> -eric
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Adrian Perez <aperez at igalia.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 May 2010 11:12:01 -0300
>> Gustavo Noronha Silva <gns at gnome.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 00:20 -0700, Eric Seidel wrote:
>>> > The Gtk 32-bit Release bot has wedged itself.  If someone could kick
>>> > it that would be grand:
>>> > http://build.webkit.org/results/GTK%20Linux%2032-bit%20Release/r59822%20(13001)/results.html
>>> >
>>> > Do we understand why this happens so we can prevent it in the future
>>> > (this is not the first time)?
>>>
>>> I kicked it. What happened was pulseaudio died. What I'll do is I'll
>>> have a daemon monitor make sure the pulseaudio server is running at
>>> all times, and automatically restart it if it drops again, since I
>>> could not investigate this bug.
>>
>> When we set up the Gtk+ debug bots, I was a bit concerned about the
>> fact that Pulseaudio or Xvfb could die, so I decided to run them under
>> daemontools [1], which nicely restarts services when they crash. I can
>> share the supervise scripts if, just ask if you want to a similar setup.
>> Also, we ended up running Buildbot itself and a small crash dump grabber
>> under daemontools, too.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> ---
>> [1] http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
>>
>> --
>> Adrian Perez <aperez at igalia.com>
>> Igalia - Free Software Engineering
>>
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