From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>, 33362@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33362: System tests stuck in "shepherd[1]: waiting for udevd..."
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:21:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86k0ffaxyl.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czmmpkov.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Fri, 26 Nov 2021 18:21:09 -0500")
Hi Mark,
CC: Mathieu, maybe they have an insight for Cuirass.
On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 at 18:21, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 at 20:09, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:
>>
>>> As I write this, there are two system test builds that have been stuck
>>> for many hours, endlessly printing "shepherd[1]: waiting for udevd...":
>>>
>>> https://hydra.gnu.org/build/3153725
>>> https://hydra.gnu.org/build/3154365
>>>
>>> They are both on i686-linux, and on the 'core-updates' branch, but with
>>> two different build slaves (hydra.gnunet.org and guix.sjd.se).
>>>
>>> I will now abort these builds, to free up build slots for other jobs.
>>
>> I am doing bug triage and I hit this old one #33362 [1] from 2018. It
>> is about hydra which is down now, IIRC.
>
> I doubt that this bug was about Hydra. It guess that the bug was in our
> system test derivations. As far as I know, the only relevance of Hydra
> to this bug is that Hydra was our CI system at that time, and therefore
> it was Hydra that brought this bug to my attention.
I agree, but I am not able to connect to the mentioned logs. Are the
links still working?
>> Does it still make sense to keep it open? Or can we close it?
>
> If the bug hasn't occurred recently, then I agree it's okay to close it.
>
> It would be good to check our modern Cuirass-based ci.guix.gnu.org to
> find out whether this failure mode is still occurring in our system
> tests.
>
> I see that Cuirass's web interface has improved quite significantly in
> the last couple of years, and I'm very grateful to those who've worked
> on it. However, Cuirass still seems to be missing some important
> functionality that Hydra had. Most notably, unless I missed something,
> it seems to lack the ability to compare the results of two evaluations
> and show the *differences* between those results, i.e. to enumerate the
> newly failing jobs, the newly succeeding jobs, and the newly aborted
> jobs.
>
> Without that functionality, it's not easy for us to notice when a job
> starts to fail, unless a user files a bug report. The total list of job
> failures has always been too large to easily notice changes in that list
> without assistance.
I agree. Maybe Mathieu could comment more because this missing feature
is floating around. :-)
Cheers,
simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-04 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-13 1:09 bug#33362: System tests stuck in "shepherd[1]: waiting for udevd..." Mark H Weaver
2018-11-13 20:51 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-11-29 22:58 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-11-29 23:19 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-12-09 8:33 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-14 23:52 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-11-20 16:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-09 21:46 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-11-26 1:34 ` zimoun
2021-11-26 23:21 ` Mark H Weaver
2022-01-04 23:21 ` zimoun [this message]
2022-02-03 2:37 ` zimoun
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