1298001 - Windows XP testers don't reboot after finishing jobs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: CIDuty, task)

Description

[Alin Selagea [:aselagea]]

I think this a known issue as it occurs pretty often, but it would be nice if we could find a fix/improvement for this.

As I see it, the steps listed on "startTalos.bat" file are executed each time.
    - one common situation when an XP tester gets stuck is when running "runslave.py" script. "Runslave.log" does not offer much useful info on this though (see attachments). 
    - I've also seen cases where "startTalos.bat" file is not executed, so the machine won't do anything until rebooted 

The XP testers in such a state need manual reboot before taking any job (this is usually done by :philor and buildduty).

Comment 1

[Alin Selagea [:aselagea]]

Attachment: XP_terminate_batch.PNG

Comment 2

[Alin Selagea [:aselagea]]

Attachment: XP_runslave_log.PNG

Comment 3

[Alin Selagea [:aselagea]]

Attachment: XP_error_log.PNG

Comment 4

[Armen [:armenzg]]

For the first one:
http://superuser.com/questions/35698/how-to-supress-terminate-batch-job-y-n-confirmation/35741#35741

Do we still deploy these files via puppet?

On which repo is startTalos.bat?
Is this it?
https://dxr.mozilla.org/build-central/source/puppet/modules/buildslave/files/startTalos-xp.bat

Where's the code that generates runslave.log?
Is this the code?
https://dxr.mozilla.org/build-central/source/puppet/modules/buildslave/files/runslave.py

What generates log_error.log?

Comment 5

[Alin Selagea [:aselagea]]

(In reply to Armen Zambrano [:armenzg] (EDT/UTC-4) from comment #4)

> Do we still deploy these files via puppet?

HW Windows testers are managed by GPO, not puppet.  

> On which repo is startTalos.bat?
> Is this it?
> https://dxr.mozilla.org/build-central/source/puppet/modules/buildslave/files/
> startTalos-xp.bat

Taking a look at how startTalos.bat looks like on an XP testers, it seems that it's not the same file as the one stored in puppet. I was able to find it on the winadmin machine (there's a GPO policy pointing to it), but I'm not sure about the deploy process.

> Where's the code that generates runslave.log?
> Is this the code?
> https://dxr.mozilla.org/build-central/source/puppet/modules/buildslave/files/
> runslave.py

Yes. The log file also contains stores the "echo" entries from startTalos.bat that correspond to the cleaning process.

> What generates log_error.log?

log_error.log seemss to contain the errors generated by the test run.

Comment 6

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Bug 1088032 was the previous instance of this I was having trouble finding (bug 972867 being the easier one to find).

Comment 7

[Alin Selagea [:aselagea]]

Windows XP backlog hasn't been an issue recently. 
Moreover, XP testing will be dropped starting with Firefox 53 (see bug 1310836). That being said, I don't think it's worth spending more time working on this.