From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Odd uuid-ossp behavior on smew and shearwater |
Date: | 2014-05-29 20:06:29 |
Message-ID: | 53879345.6080509@dunslane.net |
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On 05/29/2014 02:38 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> I've just committed regression test adjustments to prevent that from
>>> being a failure case, but I am confused about why it's happening.
>>> I wouldn't be surprised at not getting a MAC address on a machine that
>>> lacks any internet connection, but that surely can't describe the
>>> buildfarm environment. Are you curious enough to poke into it and
>>> see what's going on? It might be useful to strace a backend that's
>>> trying to execute uuid_generate_v1() and see what the kernel interaction
>>> looks like exactly.
>> Here's the result of attaching strace to an idle backend, then running
>> SELECT uuid_generate_v1(). AFAIR shearwater is a cheaply-hosted OpenVZ
>> VPS under the hood.
> Interesting. Looks like you have access only to virtual network
> interfaces, and they report all-zero MAC addresses, which the UUID library
> is smart enough to ignore. If smew is also in a virtual environment
> then that's probably the explanation. (There are some other buildfarm
> critters that are reporting MAC addresses with the local-admin bit set,
> which I suspect also means they've got virtual network interfaces, but
> with a different treatment of the what-to-report problem.)
>
>
Almost all my critters run in VMs (all but jacana and bowerbird).
cheers
andrew
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