965505 - request for a Windows 7 test slave

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: CIDuty, task)

Description

[Nathan Froyd [:froydnj]]

I'm investigating bug 938691 and can't seem to replicate what happens on the releng machines on my local machine, so I'd like an actual slave to poke at things there.

Since I've never gotten a Windows loaner before, how does one go about connecting to them?  With the Mac I requested, it was a matter of bouncing through ssh, but I imagine that does not work so well with Windows machines...

Comment 1

[Jordan Lund (:jlund)]

> Since I've never gotten a Windows loaner before, how does one go about
> connecting to them?  With the Mac I requested, it was a matter of bouncing
> through ssh, but I imagine that does not work so well with Windows
> machines...

Sorry for the delay here. I am bumping this to the top of my list in priority and will ensure it is dealt with today.

You will have VNC and ssh access to our windows slaves. Shouldn't be a problem trying to do what you want to achieve :)

Comment 2

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

(In reply to Jordan Lund (:jlund) from comment #1)
> > Since I've never gotten a Windows loaner before, how does one go about
> > connecting to them?  With the Mac I requested, it was a matter of bouncing
> > through ssh, but I imagine that does not work so well with Windows
> > machines...
> 
> Sorry for the delay here. I am bumping this to the top of my list in
> priority and will ensure it is dealt with today.
> 
> You will have VNC and ssh access to our windows slaves. Shouldn't be a
> problem trying to do what you want to achieve :)

Also RDP if you really want, but for windows we suggest VNC for most use-cases.

Comment 3

[Jordan Lund (:jlund)]

whoops. I had you all lined up with a 'build' slave but looking at bug 938691, I think you are in need of a 'test' slave if you are running mochitests on them.

I should have caught that. We have 'build' slaves and 'test' slaves. It's confusing because they both 'build things in buildbot'.

me looks again for one that we can run unittests on.

Comment 4

[Nathan Froyd [:froydnj]]

(In reply to Jordan Lund (:jlund) from comment #3)
> whoops. I had you all lined up with a 'build' slave but looking at bug
> 938691, I think you are in need of a 'test' slave if you are running
> mochitests on them.

My apologies!  You shouldn't have to go hunting through the dependencies to figure out what I want; I will make a clearer distinction next time.

Comment 5

[Jordan Lund (:jlund)]

Email sent to Nathan. dep bugs resolved. He should have access to this slave.

We will use this bug to track any issues with this slave.

Nathan, please resolve this bug and comment when you are finished and we will put it back in our pool. :)

Comment 6

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Still using this loaner?

Comment 7

[Nathan Froyd [:froydnj]]

(In reply to Justin Wood (:Callek) from comment #6)
> Still using this loaner?

No, thanks.