Build failed in Jenkins: cyrus-imapd-master #402

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)]

On 2012-02-20 11:44, Greg Banks wrote:
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 20/02/2012, at 19:13, Bron Gondwana <brong at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:00:52PM +1100, Greg Banks wrote:
>>> 4) Cassandane sometimes leaves master and lemming processes lying  
>>> around.  I haven't
>>>   been able to reproduce that problem, although I have "solved" it  
>>> several times before.
>>>   Those leaked processes are never cleaned up and hog the TCP ports 
>>> that Cassandane
>>>   expects to be able to use, causing subsequent Cassandane runs to  
>>> fail spuriously.  I'm
>>>   not entirely sure of the best way to address this, but I'm  
>>> thinking of something like a
>>>   sledgehammer which kills all processes running as the "cyrus"  
>>> userid.
>>
>> My 'cyrus-devtools' scripts use a sledgehammer that looks for the
>> -C option that I set on all my processes.
>
> Yeah, I could identify master processes  started by Cassandane, and
> service processes started by those masters, by looking for -C 
> options.
> I might make --cleanup do that.
>

There's also the opportunity to have Jenkins execute a 'sudo pkill -9 
-u cyrus' at the start of a run, perhaps?

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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