488362 - Periodic windows build bustage due to failure to open file

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 509960

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Johnathan Nightingale [:johnath]]

See, for example:

http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showlog.cgi?log=Firefox/1239740029.1239745054.8360.gz&fulltext=1

which reports:

link -NOLOGO -DLL -OUT:npbasic.dll -PDB:npbasic.pdb -SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS  plugin.obj    basic.res -NXCOMPAT -SAFESEH -DYNAMICBASE -MANIFEST:NO  -DEBUG -OPT:REF -OPT:nowin98 -LTCG:PGINSTRUMENT -DEF:e:/builds/moz2_slave/mozilla-central-win32/build/modules/plugin/sdk/samples/basic/windows/basic.def    ../../common/plugingate_s.lib   kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winmm.lib wsock32.lib advapi32.lib   
   Creating library npbasic.lib and object npbasic.exp
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'npbasic.lib'
make[8]: Leaving directory `/e/builds/moz2_slave/mozilla-central-win32/build/obj-firefox/modules/plugin/sdk/samples/basic/windows'
make[7]: Leaving directory `/e/builds/moz2_slave/mozilla-central-win32/build/obj-firefox/modules/plugin/sdk/samples'
make[6]: Leaving directory `/e/builds/moz2_slave/mozilla-central-win32/build/obj-firefox/modules/plugin/sdk'
make[5]: Leaving directory `/e/builds/moz2_slave/mozilla-central-win32/build/obj-firefox/modules/plugin'
make[4]: Leaving directory `/e/builds/moz2_slave/mozilla-central-win32/build/obj-firefox'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/e/builds/moz2_slave/mozilla-central-win32/build/obj-firefox'
make[8]: *** [npbasic.dll] Error 80
make[8]: *** Deleting file `npbasic.dll'


Speculation on IRC was that this might be related to low-disk-free conditions, but nthomas suggested that this was unlikely.

Comments suggest it's periodic, on random files.

Comment 1

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

1) This specific case happened on moz2-win32-slave14. If you see this again, can you please update this bug with what machine?

2) Are we only seeing this with builds or is it also seen in unittest runs?



(ps: agree with nthomas, unlikely related to disk space, as we have background jobs running to prevent that happening on the slaves.)

Comment 2

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Possibly a pre-cursor to bug 488447.

Comment 3

[Johnathan Nightingale [:johnath]]

Benjamin points out that this might be related to bug 442819, and is happening frequently on npbasic.lib specifically

Comment 4

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

Can anybody reproduce this?  I've had 'make clean && make -j4' running in a loop in modules/plugin on my VM for a few hours now with no failures yet.

Comment 5

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I have never seen it anywhere but a tinderbox.

Comment 6

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

I'm not really sure what we can do here, except monitor for these bustages right now.

Comment 7

[Zack Weinberg (:zwol)]

Merging with bug 509960 which has more analysis.

Comment 8

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

Moving closed Future bugs into Release Engineering in preparation for removing the Future component.