FE6 Buildsys Lockups

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 01:23 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
> Warren Togami wrote:
> > http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/build-status/
> > 
> > During the past 2-3 weeks or so, gcc and sed have been deadlocking 
> > during FE6 builds in our plague+mock based Extras buildsys.  This has 
> > been happening consistently when building certain packages, and always 
> > the i386 arch deadlocking.  Our attempts of getting any useful info from 
> > strace or gdb have failed.
> > 
> > Our x86_64 Extras buildsys hosts appear to be FC3 with 
> > kernel-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3smp.  Meanwhile we haven't seem to run into 
> > similar deadlock problems of our FC6 mock builds inside of Red Hat, 
> > where the host is RHEL4 U3.  Several of us suspect some kind of kernel 
> > problem on the buildhosts.
> > 
> > Here are the next steps that I am trying:
> > 
> > 1) Testing those builds on our existing FC3 buildhosts, but with RHEL4 
> > kernels.
> > 2) Testing those builds on Red Hat's internal buildsys, which is also 
> > mock based but with RHEL4 hosts.
> > 
> > I am proceeding to install RHEL4 kernels and rebooting the Extras build 
> > hosts now.
> > 
> 
> All 3 hammer Extras buildsys machines are now running RHEL4 kernels. 
> gurlchecker seems to have built successfully.  Please try the other 
> packages and let this thread know if you run into any more trouble 
> related to this.

Thanks a ton for taking a look at this Warren, lets hope this does the
trick.

Dan

> Warren Togami
> wtogami at redhat.com
>