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Date:      Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:37:00 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sentex tinderbox build cluster failures
Message-ID:  <4F2BE2FC.10704@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120203084817.GA17447@icarus.home.lan>
References:  <20120203084817.GA17447@icarus.home.lan>

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On 2/3/2012 3:48 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> For many days now (almost a week?) there have been tinderbox build mails
> coming from the sentex.ca build cluster, specific to powerpc, mips, and
> sparc64 platforms.

Hi,
	I will let des@freebsd speak to the errors.  We host the boxes here,
but he is in charge of them and better understands the issue

	---Mike

> 
> The errors in question are strange and may indicate some kind of
> filesystem corruption or equivalent -- I'm really not sure.
> 
> Breaking them down:
> 
> powerpc/powerpc, RELENG_8_2 --
> 
> 	/src/sys/powerpc/booke/platform_bare.c:82: error: expected '}' before ';' token
> 
> 	This file hasn't been touched in over 2 months:
> 	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/powerpc/booke/platform_bare.c
> 
> mips/mips, RELENG_8_2 --
> 
> 	/src/sys/mips/alchemy/obio.c:513: warning: pointer type mismatch in conditional expression
> 
> 	This file hasn't been touched in over 2 months:
> 	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/mips/alchemy/obio.c
> 
> mips/mips, RELENG_8_1 --
> 
> 	In file included from /src/sys/mips/sentry5/siba_cc.c:58:
> 	/src/sys/dev/siba/sibavar.h:487: error: field 'sd_id' has incomplete type
> 	/src/sys/dev/siba/sibavar.h:526: error: 'SIBA_MAX_CORES' undeclared here (not in a function)
> 
> 	src/sys/mips/sentry5/siba_cc.c has been Attic'd, and the last
> 	time it was touched was 14 months ago:
> 	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/mips/sentry5/Attic/siba_cc.c
> 
> 	src/sys/dev/siba/sibavar.h hasn't been touched in over 2 months:
> 	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/siba/sibavar.h
> 
> All recent tinderbox failures for RELENG_8 (for mips, ia64, and sparc64)
> appear to be related to a commit Jack did ~7 hours ago, and are almost
> certainly temporary/transient errors (e.g. csup/cvs pulldown didn't get
> the full commit).  So we can ignore those.
> 
> The others need to be investigated though.
> 
> Users on the freebsd-stable lists have been complaining about these
> continual errors, so I was wondering if they're being investigated.
> I also got one off-list mail from someone personally asking me if I knew
> what could be going on or had any insights to this (not sure why that
> person thought that -- I have nothing to do with tinderbox :-) ).
> 
> Let us know if you could.  Thanks!
> 


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Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net
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