Re: backup manifests and contemporaneous buildfarm failures

On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 12:37 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > Taking stock of the situation this morning, most of the buildfarm is
> > now green. There are three failures, on eelpout (6 hours ago),
> > fairywren (17 hours ago), and hyrax (3 days, 7 hours ago).
>
> fairywren has now done this twice in the pg_validatebackupCheck step:
>
> exec failed: Bad address at /home/pgrunner/bf/root/HEAD/pgsql.build/../pgsql/src/test/perl/TestLib.pm line 340.
>  at /home/pgrunner/bf/root/HEAD/pgsql.build/../pgsql/src/test/perl/TestLib.pm line 340.
>
> I'm a tad suspicious that it needs another perl2host()
> somewhere, but the log isn't very clear as to where.
>
> More generally, I wonder if we ought to be trying to
> centralize those perl2host() calls instead of sticking
> them into individual test cases.
>
>


Not sure about that. I'll see if I can run it by hand and get some
more info. What's quite odd is that jacana (a very similar setup) is
passing this happily.

cheers

andrew


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