Re: [PATCH obv/pushed] MIPS ptrace build fixes

Brendan Kirby
2015-08-24T18:30:29Z

On 08/24/2015 11:24 AM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
> On Monday, August 24 2015, I wrote:
>
>> On Monday, August 24 2015, Pedro Alves wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/24/2015 07:10 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>>>> On Monday, August 24 2015, Pedro Alves wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> FYI, this triggers quite often. For the past couple weeks alone,
>>>>> I got personally nagged with spurious build failures 5 times. And
>>>>> of course everyone else has been getting their share as well.
>>>> I'm looking for a way to disable e-mail notifications for this specific
>>>> buildslave. This is not trivial, but I'll see what I can do.
>>> I think we should also disable the test regressions
>>> notifications too. If building is unreliable, so must testing be.
>>> Maybe it's simpler to disable the builder until this is sorted out?
>> Yeah, I thought about that. I'll disable it for now, then.
> Done. The buildslave is still connected to the BuildBot, but there are
> no builders assigned to it, and therefore no e-mails will be generated
> by it.
>
> FWIW, I think I figure out a way to disable e-mail notifications
> (entirely) from a builder, so if Brendan wants to test other machines to
> see if the problem is solved, it can be done.
I spoke with Rich and he thinks there might be a patch to the kernel
that may help with the earlier issues. When I get that patch installed,
I'll let you know and we can turn it on again with e-mail notification
off to see how it does.

Brendan