Re: [Fwd: PGBuildfarm member narwhal Branch HEAD Status changed from OK to InstallCheck failure]

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: PGBuildfarm member narwhal Branch HEAD Status changed from OK to InstallCheck failure]
Date: 2007-04-27 14:05:34
Message-ID: 14242.1177682734@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Is this the same physical machine as narwhal?

> Yes, it is. It's an FC6 box running VMWare server, with a Win 2k3r2 VM
> and a Vista ultimate VM, both with mingw and msvc animals.

> I'm still not convinced it's a hardware problem - aside from the fact
> that it's the same error every time (although, I note in this case it
> was in check, not installcheck), I would expect at least one of SMART,
> FC6, VMware or 2k3/Vista to spot that there was a problem. I have also
> recreated the virtual disks of both VMs since this started happening. I
> wonder if we're hitting some odd bug in VMware.

I concur it's too regular to be a hardware issue. The VMware idea is
a bit plausible though. If that's it, we ought to see failures of this
ilk on all four animals sooner or later ...

regards, tom lane

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