[LLVMdev] buildbot failure in LLVM on ppc64le-sanitizer

[Alexey Samsonov]

Hi Jay,

This should hopefully be fixed by http://reviews.llvm.org/D6934 (by Will)

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Timur Iskhodzhanov <timurrrr at google.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jay,
>
> Please bear in mind that quite a lot of buildbot-related issues you'll see
> are, well, caused by bugs/features of buildbot source code rather than the
> configs used for the LLVM master.
>
> I'm not familiar with the LLVM master configs per se, but from my
> experience setting up buildbots for other projects, there are dozens of
> features in buildbot you'll find weird.  And in most cases, those are not
> actionable for LLVM developers, so not sure I support your resolution :)
>
> Flaky tests and/or undecipherable LIT test outputs are good reasons to
> complain though.
>
> In this particular case, it looks like the bot has just been added [and is
> unlikely to be green for the first few cycles/days], so it seems reasonable
> to just disable email notifications for it.
> I don't know who has added the bot, so adding Galina and Kostya to CC,
> they should know.
>
> ––
> Tim
>
> On Tue Jan 13 2015 at 12:07:23 AM Jay Foad <jay.foad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My New Year's resolution is to complain (constructively) whenever I
>> get a spurious build failure email from a buildbot. For new or
>> infrequent contributors especially, they can be extremely confusing
>> and unnecessarily alarming.
>>
>> This one below is the first build ever attempted by the builder, so
>> how on earth can it have come up with a meaningful blame list? And in
>> any case, surely we should only get emailed when something breaks,
>> i.e. on a transition from green to red? In this case there was no
>> previous build whatsoever, let alone a successful one.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jay.
>>
>> On 12 January 2015 at 19:54,  <llvm.buildmaster at lab.llvm.org> wrote:
>> > The Buildbot has detected a new failure on builder ppc64le-sanitizer
>> while building llvm.
>> > Full details are available at:
>> >  http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/ppc64le-sanitizer/builds/0
>> >
>> > Buildbot URL: http://lab.llvm.org:8011/
>> >
>> > Buildslave for this Build: ppc64le-sanitizer
>> >
>> > Build Reason: scheduler
>> > Build Source Stamp: [branch trunk] 225670
>> > Blamelist: ab,abataev,alexfh,artagnon,benlangmuir,chandlerc,chapuni,
>> compnerd,dexonsmith,djasper,dsanders,ehsan,eugenis,foad,
>> gribozavr,hfinkel,jhibbits,jkolek,joerg,majnemer,matze,
>> nathan,rafael,rdivacky,rksimon,rsmith,rtrieu,sanjoy,
>> seurer,spatel,timurrrr,tomatabacu,tstellar
>> >
>> > BUILD FAILED: failed annotate
>> >
>> > sincerely,
>> >  -The Buildbot
>>
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