2010/9/15 Hans-Christoph Steiner <ha...@at.or.at>

Yea the process died somehow. I have restarted it with the command: /sw/bin/buildbot restart /Users/buildbot/macosx104-i386

The output had some complaints: /sw/lib/python2.6/site-packages/twisted/persisted/sob.py:12: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead import os, md5, sys /sw/lib/python2.6/site-packages/twisted/python/filepath.py:12: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha /sw/lib/python2.6/site-packages/twisted/internet/_sslverify.py:5: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead import itertools, md5 Following twistd.log until startup finished.. /sw/lib/python2.6/site-packages/buildbot/scripts/logwatcher.py:52: PotentialZombieWarning: spawnProcess called, but the SIGCHLD handler is not installed. This probably means you have not yet called reactor.run, or called reactor.run(installSignalHandler=0). You will probably never see this process finish, and it may become a zombie process. env=os.environ, Removing stale pidfile /Users/buildbot/macosx104-i386/twistd.pid

Good! I saw you stared experimenting with a builder for the externals too - do i understand right that at the end we will have every external built separately? I was thinking about breaking them out to a separate master, but then we'd need to duplicate every slave setup, so finally i think they could stay in the main master, and we could have each of their have their own "category" name, which allows for some selection at the web page. Also note that for the builders, you can define an array with "slavenames:" instead of a single string "slavename", so you can test the same builder on multiple slaves at the same time. At the end they have to broken down to one slave per builder, otherwise the diag output is not easy to understand. Changing descriptionDone values to past tense like "compiled" may not make sense when the step fails and the output goes like "compiled failed". Also there are things like "autogen" which don't have a proper past tense... :) Another thing i noticed an "svn update" by itself, i think we shall have the sources explicitly in master.cfg otherwise it will fail where the slave got reset. Also you told before we wanted "clobber" (tabula rasa) checkout not an update... I saw the "make install", "make uninstall" steps in the output - having these would make much sense, fyi tests can be called with Test() which has some advantages over ShellCommand() like it doesn't make the whole build halt on failure. BTW switching the sources to git is easy, what we have to work out is Git polling. It's built into 0.8.1 but needs to triggered from git for 0.7.12. And then we have this thing with the poller to explain it which builder to start upon updates... a.k.a. the cake :)

Andras