hi -admin and -devel, executive summary: mysterious and unreproducible ftbfs for mysql, and perhaps other packages on the hppa architecture. a faulty buildd (sarti) is suspected, but afaict all requests for information remain unanswered. i'm suspecting hardware problems, as for mysql this is not the first such ftbfs[1]. originally, a similarly mysterious error occurred where the build didn't even start because installing tetex-bin failed. Frank Küster followed up[2] with debian-hppa as well as debian-admin about the problem, but afaik recieved no response. now, mysql is failing during the execution of debian/rules, in a chunk of code doing no more than a find/xargs/rm[3]. the buildd reports that the job failed do to a lack of activity for more than 150 minutes[4]. On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:56:58PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > I have asked ryan murray and the hppa list about this, but never > received an answer. I don't know whether the problem magically solved > itself (which would again point to a hardware problem) or whether some > admin acted. It would be interesting to find out why the buildd tried > again to build the package after the last one failed - maybe this gives > some insight who did what why when. it would be nice if someone could comment on the matter. looking back in the archives for the hppa list, i see at least one other unrelated post[5] indicating the same problem for multiple other packages, also unanswered so far. this mail was only sent yesterday (20051205) though. however, the poster does point out that the failing packages build just fine on other hppa machines. in the meantime, i'm forwarding this on to d-d (and cc'ing d-a, but not d-hppa as it won't do more good than what's already been done). as much as i hate to stoop to this level, i find often making a public fuss about things is the quickest way to get things going, and i don't know what else can be done. all flames/tar/feathers can be sent my way for having done so and i apologize for having done so if i am in fact totally off-base on my assumptions. sean [1] http://bugs.debian.org/340279 [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2005/11/msg00017.html [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342244 [4] http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=mysql-dfsg-5.0&ver=5.0.16-1&arch=hppa&stamp=1133590988&file=log&as=raw [5] http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2005/12/msg00012.html
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