Re: long waiting times for COPR jobs

[Michal Novotny]

Hello Jean-Marc,

answer is below...

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Jean-Marc Liger <
jean-marc.liger(a)parisdescartes.fr&gt; wrote:

>  Hi Clime,
>  Le 03/11/2017 à 06:39, Michal Novotny a écrit :
>
>  Hey,
>
>  On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Michal Novotny <clime(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > lately, COPR pending job queues are holding jobs for pretty long time
> > (even hours). This is a buggy behaviour and we will be doing our best to
> > fix this issue in the following days.
> >
>
>  as we have found out yesterday. One of the main issue was
>  'createrepo.lock.lock' file in @rubygems/rubygems/srpm-builds/ directory
>  on copr-backend that caused 'createrepo' command to hand indefinitely after
>  a srpm build and hence the builder that was allocated for rubygems srpm
>  builds was never released afterwards. Together with #160 SRPM build may
>  be allocated on multiple builders at once
>  <https://pagure.io/copr/copr/issue/160>;, this probably was causing the
>  really long waiting times. Our queueing mechaism will still need to be (and
>  will be) improved but this was the main issue very likely.
>
>  Sorry for the waiting
>  COPR team
>
>
>  All ppc64le plateforms are in pending mode since yesterday, is it relative
>  to the above ?
>  
No, not really. This is an OpenStack problem as we are not able to spawn
any new ppc64le builder from COPR. We will try to build a new ppc64le image
based on Fedora27 and see if it helps and if not, we will give another try
to solve it together with OpenStack folks.

clime


>  Regards,
>  Jean-Marc
>