569448 - Standardize path to twistd.log

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Justin Dow [:jabba]]

Bug 564404 implemented a new Nagios check that looks for E:\builds\slave\twistd.log on the Windows build slaves, however Nagios isn't able to find that file.

Comment 1

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

One thing to watch out for is absolute paths end up in the build system, eg obj-firefox/Makefile has this on win32:

DEPTH           = .
topsrcdir       = /e/builds/moz2_slave/mozilla-1.9.2-win32/build
srcdir          = /e/builds/moz2_slave/mozilla-1.9.2-win32/build
VPATH           = /e/builds/moz2_slave/mozilla-1.9.2-win32/build

I think this requires clobbering if the slave directory is renamed/moved.

Comment 2

[Rail Aliiev [:rail]]

As a work around for this we can use NTFS Link [1] for hardlinking the directories.

1. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfslinkext/

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

That will work for some machines but not all of them use NTFS for e:, unfortunately.

Comment 4

[Justin Dow [:jabba]]

If this is a huge issue, the nagios checks can be modified instead, however I'd need a list of hosts with the location of twistd.log for each host or group of hosts.

Comment 5

[Rail Aliiev [:rail]]

The list of problematic machines:

moz2-win32-slave{01,60}.build
mw32-ix-slave{01,25}.build
try-w32-slave{01,31}.build

Total 115 hosts.

Comment 6

[Justin Dow [:jabba]]

So.. I modified the nagios check to look for E:\builds\moz2_slave\twistd.log , that seemed to clear up the issue. Can this bug be closed now, or do you still want to change the path?