968497 - Get a screenshot in the build log when the build times out

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

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This will help us decipher mysterious try failures such as the one I'm seeing in bug 944800.  We current take a screenshot when we get a test timeout, it would be nice to do the same for build timeouts as well.

Comment 1

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

This may be harder than believed on the surface, fwiw. (at least right now).

The test harness is what takes the screenshot when a test times out, while a build timeout tends to be buildbot killing whatever procs have run already, and after it does so future steps don't know for sure what happened in previous steps, if they succeeded or failed, or whatever else may have happened.

Comment 2

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

There's a way to prevent that missing DLL popup box from happening on windows, perhaps that's the right fix?

Comment 3

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(In reply to comment #2)
> There's a way to prevent that missing DLL popup box from happening on windows,
> perhaps that's the right fix?

How would you do that?  (And yes, we should definitely do that!)

Comment 4

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

Q, any ideas?

Comment 5

[Q]

Looking at the attached bug the primary issue is fixed. However, assuming WER is already off it may be possible to have the debugger report to event viewer instead of using a popup in the future.