Jenkins reliability ( was Re: [squeak-dev] 6 tests to go...)

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 19:19:23 UTC 2012


On 23 October 2012 19:00, Chris Cunnington
<smalltalktelevision at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think I can sketch out a few details.
>
> 1. The first thing is that this is not a medical emergency. I'm saying that
> for my own peace of mind. System administration under duress is no fun at
> all.

Ideally one shouldn't do system adminstration when feeling under pressure :)

> 2. The builds are still there. They don't disappear. They just aren't seen
> by the webpage. We are not alone in this. It has happened before.
>
> http://jenkins.361315.n4.nabble.com/JIRA-JENKINS-11938-Jenkins-loses-builds-when-restarted-td4124991.html
>
> 3. The problem may be in the reading of an XML file. The solution I've
> gleaned so far is that instead of creating another build, I could log in and
> press:
>
> "Reload Configuration from Disk"
>
> Or I could just try restarting.
>
> 4. This didn't happen on the older server. It won't last forever on this
> one.
>
> 5. God knows, somebody will come up with a better answer than I can. But
> since you're all looking at me at this moment, I say this: "Don't panic. We
> still know where our towel is."

Not panicking. At least, not yet :)

frank

> Chris
>
>
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