Buildbot/OutageReports

We started collecting Outage Reports for Tinderbox last year as a means of determining what intermittent failures we were hitting on each platform. This allowed us to track failure patterns over time and helped us figure out where the highest value fixes were.

Many of the errors are difficult to fix or perhaps even unfixable (e.g. toolchain hangs on Windows), but having a history of outage reports with sufficient diagnostic information allows others (e.g. IT) to restart a hung system without outside intervention.

• Report Template

Sep 2007

• 2008/09/05 - Update to configuration files was not propagated internally via a reconfig request.
• 2008/09/04 - Try server: SIGKILL failed to kill process
• 2008/09/04 - Try server: SIGKILL failed to kill process

Aug 2007

• 2007/08/30 - Unable to roll cvsco.log files.