419936 - winxp talos boxes lose settings on reboot

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[alice nodelman [:alice] [:anode]]

After a reboot we lose the following settings on winxp talos machines:

- throttling needs to be reset to 50% 
- buildbot slave does not auto restart

Comment 1

[alice nodelman [:alice] [:anode]]

These machines also need to auto-login on reboot.

Comment 2

[alice nodelman [:alice] [:anode]]

Also need to have patch in bug 420216 for proper process killing on failure.

Comment 3

[alice nodelman [:alice] [:anode]]

Attachment: rebootXP.zip

Installation instructions:

- turn off auto start on speedswitch

- grab rebootXP.zip, unzip in c:\
* run reboot.bat
* set up autologin (ensure it is for the mozqa account)
* remote reboot.bat (rm reboot.bat)

- attempt a reboot, does it start back up correctly?
* auto logged in?
* throttling correct?
* buildbot started?