Releases/Firefox 17.0b1/BuildNotes

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Set reserved_slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Check to make sure you have all of the different types of slaves that you need ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Start the automation ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Sign Android builds ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Reset reserved_slaves and unlock slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Push to mirrors ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Publish Fennec ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Bugs hit

• bug 799599 - don't use mock slaves for releases until bug 798361 is done
• bug 799806 - compile failures in libmar for repacks
• bug 799347 - Investigate packet loss within SCL3
• bug 799954 - linux repacks failed in firefox 17.0b1
• bug 799988 - Install android-sdk-r16 RPM to IX machines
• [no bug] - Add --enable-stdcxx-compat to l10n release mozconfigs for Linux mozilla-beta, to fix compiler errors.

Notes

• Tracking bug: bug 796970
• Release engineer: jhopkins
• Buildbot master: bm13

Build 1

Starting the automation

cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u jhopkins \
    -V 17.0b1 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 \
    --release-config release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py \
    --release-config release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py --products firefox,fennec  \
    --dryrun localhost:9001

The initial tagging build and Linux builds failed because mozilla-beta was configured to use mock (release automation is not using mock yet). Rail wrote a patch to allow release configs to override "use_mock" setting of the platform config (eg. pf['linux']['use_mock']). We also needed to restore the "disable mock" block for mozilla-beta in config.py.

Fix repacks

First we hit bug 799806. nthomas wrote a patch to resolve the iseue.

After that, Windows and Mac repacks worked fine but Linux hit:

===
=== If you get failures below, please file a bug describing the error
=== and your environment (compiler and linker versions), and use
=== --disable-elf-hack until this is fixed.
===
# Fail if the library doesn't have INIT_ARRAY .dynamic info
readelf -d test-array.so | grep '(INIT_ARRAY)'
 0x00000019 (INIT_ARRAY)                 0x54a8
/builds/slave/rel-m-beta-lnx-rpk-2/mozilla-beta/obj-l10n/build/unix/elfhack/elfhack -b -f test-array.so
/builds/slave/rel-m-beta-lnx-rpk-2/mozilla-beta/obj-l10n/build/unix/elfhack/elfhack: /tools/gcc-4.3.3/installed/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /builds/slave/rel-m-beta-lnx-rpk-2/mozilla-beta/obj-l10n/build/unix/elfhack/elfhack)
make[4]: *** [test-array.so] Error 1

Catlee suggested that adding --enable-stdcxx-compat to the mozconfig would fix it. I (bhearsum) tested this by hand to verify, and then landed a fix in buildbot-configs: https://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/rev/e0994e97bf3a. After retagging and testing one repack chunk, I triggered the rest.

Respin declared for the same issue as the 16.0 chemspill

Build 2

Starting the automation

cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u catlee \
    -V 17.0b1 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 2 \
    --release-config release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py \
    --products firefox \
    --dryrun localhost:9001

Fennec beta tagging delayed due to SCL3 network issues. See bug 799347. Once the workaround was done:

cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u nthomas \
    -V 17.0b1 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 2 \
    --release-config release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py \
    --products fennec \
    --dryrun localhost:9001

which was clean, ran without the --dryrun.

Sign Android builds

Ran the following as cltsign@signing1:

cd ~/signing-work/mozharness
hg pull -u && hg up -C
cd ..
python2.6 mozharness/scripts/sign_android.py --config-file signing/android_mozilla-beta.py

Problem with win32 'km' locale

The win32 km locale failed to build with the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "e:/builds/moz2_slave/rel-m-beta-w32-rpk-4/mozilla-beta/toolkit/mozapps/installer/windows/nsis/preprocess-locale.py", line 321, in <module>
    preprocess_locale_files(config_dir, l10n_dirs)
  File "e:/builds/moz2_slave/rel-m-beta-w32-rpk-4/mozilla-beta/toolkit/mozapps/installer/windows/nsis/preprocess-locale.py", line 110, in preprocess_locale_files
    True)
  File "e:/builds/moz2_slave/rel-m-beta-w32-rpk-4/mozilla-beta/toolkit/mozapps/installer/windows/nsis/preprocess-locale.py", line 48, in get_locale_strings
    if value[-1] == "\"" and value[0] == "\"":
IndexError: string index out of range
make[2]: *** [l10ngen/setup.exe] Error 1
make[1]: *** [repackage-win32-installer] Error 2
make: *** [repackage-win32-installer-km] Error 2

Filed bug 800329. Release Management said we can ship without km, so we're not going to try to fix it for this release.