[darcs-users] buildbot tip for Mac OS X buildbots

[Jules Colding]

On 04/06/2008, at 00.17, zooko wrote:

> Brian Warner (author of Buildbot) mentioned to me that when the user
> who runs the buildbot process logs out of Mac OS X, the process keeps
> running, but it loses the ability to do DNS queries!
>
> That explains failures I've been seeing on Mac OS X bots, that look
> like this:
>
> http://buildbot.darcs.net/builders/jules%20apollo%20Darwin-9.2.2%20Mac
> %20OS-10.5.3%20i386/builds/1/steps/darcs/logs/stdio

I never logs out but the pause screen activates.


> (That darcs checkout ends with "darcs failed:  Not a repository:
> http://darcs.net (Failed to download URL http://darcs.net/_darcs/
> inventory: couldn't resolve host name)".)
>
> Here is a web page on the buildbot wiki that explains how to set up
> your Mac OS X buildbot so that it can continue to use DNS while
> logged out:
>
> http://buildbot.net/trac/wiki/UsingLaunchd

OK, I'll try it.

-- 
   jules