Re: buildfarm animal shoveler failing with "Illegal instruction"

On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 12:12:44PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> shoveler has been failing for a while with an odd error. E.g.
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=shoveler&dt=2020-09-18%2014%3A01%3A48
> 
> Illegal instruction
> pg_dumpall: error: pg_dump failed on database "template1", exiting
> waiting for server to shut down.... done
> 
> None of the changes in that time frame look like they're likely causing
> illegal instructions to be emitted that weren't before. So I am
> wondering if anything changed on that machine around  2020-09-18
> 14:01:48 ?

It looks like the last package update was 2020-06-10 06:59:26, according
to the apt logs.

I'm getting Tom set up with access too, in case he has time before me to
get a stack trace to see what's happening...

Regards,
Mark