486123 - try server talos should show crash stacks

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P5)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This is a followup to bug 458903 / bug 480577, but for try server.  (The unit test analog lives in bug 483111.)

Currently we don't get crash stacks from try server talos like we do from production talos.  This means if somebody submits a patch to try server talos and a crash results, they don't get much useful information.  (And, given that they may not have access to the pageset, they may not have a way to debug the problem.)

When a talos run on the try server crashes, it should have a stack like mozilla-central talos does.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

The example that prompted this, for what it's worth, was a question from hsivonen about how to debug the problem in http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showlog.cgi?log=MozillaTry/1238416440.1238424756.7292.gz&fulltext=1

Comment 2

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

catlee - do you want to take a look at this?

Comment 3

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Yes, Henri is blocked by not being able to see what/where/why his HTML5 parser changes crash on the try server, and is unable to reproduce locally. It'd be immensely helpful to get crash stacks here ASAP.

Comment 4

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Thank you for filing this.

(Aside: The local crash from bug 482690 is back and apparently never went away--only changed URLs of occurrence, so the talos crash is I'm seeing likely to be it.)

Comment 5

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

Filed bug 497380 which blocks this one.  Futuring until that bug is able to be
taken on by someone.

Comment 6

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Mass move of bugs from Release Engineering:Future -> Release Engineering. See
http://coop.deadsquid.com/2010/02/kiss-the-future-goodbye/ for more details.

Comment 8

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

got this for free when try-as-branch went live and started posting to talos-r3 just like production code.  closing.