[maemo-developers] build failure

[From: Niels Breet]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Thomas Vander Stichele
<thomas at apestaart.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
Hi,

> I just got build failure notifications for erlang and couchdb.
>
> The logs don't show the reason for failure:
> https://garage.maemo.org/builder/fremantle/erlang_13.b.2.1-dfsg-3maemo2/
>
> My guess is that someone killed the build intentionally.  I recall
> vaguely that in the past qemu-arm hung on some instruction.
>
Yes, I killed a few hanging builds.

> a) can anyone tell me if the build might in fact have been interrupted,
> and who might have done so ?

me

>
> b) would the hang have been the reason ?

Yes, it was running for a very long time. How long does it take to
build it on your system for arm?

This seems to run for quite a whle now, is that expected?
builder1 17811 99.9  0.0 158612  8700 ?        R    Apr11 951:58
/scratchbox/devkits/qemu/bin/qemu-arm-sb --sbox-call
/home/builder1/maemo-fremantle-armel-extras-devel/work/erlang-13.b.2.1-dfsg/bin/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/beam.smp
/home/builder1/maemo-fremantle-armel-extras-devel/work/erlang-13.b.2.1-dfsg/bin/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/beam.smp
-- -root /home/builder1/maemo-fremantle-armel-extras-devel/work/erlang-13.b.2.1-dfsg/bootstrap
-progname erl -- -home
/home/builder1/maemo-fremantle-armel-extras-devel/work/erlang-13.b.2.1-dfsg/debian
-noshell -noinput -mode minimal -boot start_clean -s erl_compile
compile_cmdline @cwd
/home/builder1/maemo-fremantle-armel-extras-devel/work/erlang-13.b.2.1-dfsg/lib/parsetools/src
@warn 1 @option debug_info @option warn_obsolete_guard @i
/home/builder1/maemo-fremantle-armel-extras-devel/work/erlang-13.b.2.1-dfsg/lib/stdlib/include
@outdir ../ebin @files leex.erl

qemu-arm-sb is using 100% of one core continuously.

> c) what is the best course of action ?
>
> - package erlang and couchdb manually and ask for an exception to ship
> them
> - figure out what the bug might be

That would be the thing to do here.

- for which I will no doubt need help
> of the debmaster (which I think is Jeremy in CC, correct me if I'm
> wrong)

You are wrong ;) Jeremiah is not working for maemo.org anymore.

>
> Thanks
> Thomas
>

-- 
Niels Breet
maemo.org webmaster