558873 - Auto-reboot SeaMonkey (tests) boxes

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Release Engineering, enhancement)

Description

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

I don't know how this works exactly, but rebooting has helped us in the past: not often, but sometimes.
It should also help to get rid of Windows crash dialogs (on test boxes) for example...

Am I right that triggering this should be as easy as switching to
|'builds_before_reboot': 5|
in
http://mxr.mozilla.org/build/source/buildbot-configs/seamonkey/config.py
?

Or do our boxes (still) have other issues which prevent this?

Fwiw, Firefox uses either: None, 1 or 5.
http://mxr.mozilla.org/build/search?string=builds_before_reboot&case=on

Comment 1

[Robert Kaiser]

1) I have no idea what benefit it would have in our current setup (with puppet/OPSI/etc. it makes sense because things can be executed on startup)

2) We know that Windows boxes probably fail if we don't manually log in, which is out of the question with this setup

3) Any manual interaction (remote admin) with the boxes is futile if they might reboot automatically while you're logged in, so things like manually clobbering can't be done with this setup

4) It slows down boxes as reboot take some time, up to a few minutes per box

Comment 2

[Edmund Wong (:ewong)]

I believe this bug has been fixed.  Currently the build slaves reboot upon 
completion of the job (irregardless if the tests/builds failed,
were good or had an exception).

Fixed by http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/rev/a3bb108c6746.