[buildd-tools-devel] Timeouts

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:58:41PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> [trimming cc & adding sbuild maintainer list]
> 
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 07:21:29PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:50:31AM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 11:02:19PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> > > > Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> writes:
> > > > > speaking of which: 
> > > > > https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=agda&arch=hppa&ver=2.2.6-3&stamp=1267580450&file=log&as=raw
> > > > > says 
> > > > >
> > > > > Building Agda-2.2.6...
> > > > > [  1 of 191] Compiling Agda.Auto.NarrowingSearch ( src/full/Agda/Auto/NarrowingSearch.hs, dist-ghc6/build/Agda/Auto/NarrowingSearch.o )
> > > > > E: Caught signal 'Terminated': terminating immediately
> > > > > make: *** [build-ghc6-stamp] Terminated
> > > > > Build killed with signal TERM after 1 minutes of inactivity
> > > > >
> > > > > Isn?t this time limit a bit too low?
> > > > 
> > > > Seems so, no idea what the reason for that was. penalosa has been
> > > > reconfigured to a normal timeout in the meantime. Given back on hppa,
> > > > now.
> > > 
> > > Which explains why peri hasn't done anything useful for about 17 hours
> > > :) 
> > > 
> > > I'm quite sure it is not going to make any progress:
> > >   https://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=agda;ver=2.2.6-3;arch=hppa
> > >   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=572300
> > > 
> > > I'm still fairly new to working w/ sbuild. Other than my
> > > 1-minute-timeout trick, is there a way to kill a build and stop it
> > > from retrying later?
> > 
> > sbuild-abort should do that.
> 
> It didn't seem to:
> 
> buildd at penalosa:~$ sbuild-abort 
> I: Killing process group 331
> Error killing PGID 331: No such process

Then just kill "random" processes, like make, gcc, whatever, until it
stops trying to build something.  sbuild should then be cleanup up
the chroot.


Kurt