bug#11671: Bootstrap randomly fails on Hydra

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

For some time, the ‘tarball’ job of Coreutils on Hydra has been failing
apparently randomly, as in the example below.

It’s surprising since it is supposed to be deterministic: it starts from
a pristine tree, and is always performed on x86_64-linux-gnu.

Any idea what’s going on here?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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> Hydra job gnu:coreutils-master:tarball on x86_64-linux, build 2691638: Failed
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> Date: 
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> Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:50:54 +0200
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> Hi,
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> This is to let you know that Hydra build 2691638 of job 
> gnu:coreutils-master:tarball has changed from 'Success' to 'Failed'.
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> Complete build information can be found on this page: 
> http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2691638
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> The last 50 lines of the build log are shown at the bottom of this email.
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> A summary of the build information follows:
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> Build ID:              | 2691638
> Nix name:              | 
> coreutils-tarball-0pre07595ed8567368ca7857df974e1d8209716e7ec1
> Short description:     | Build of a source distribution from a checkout
> Maintainer(s):         | Jim Meyering <address@hidden>, Pádraig Brady 
> <address@hidden>, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
> System:                | x86_64-linux
> Derivation store path: | 
> /nix/store/3ya9v10145ky17mcc62aabivhnkpsqfh-coreutils-tarball-0pre07595ed8567368ca7857df974e1d8209716e7ec1.drv
> Output store path:     | 
> /nix/store/1hqvk6chfz4q3mvz1fviq4cg3d7gxcj4-coreutils-tarball-0pre07595ed8567368ca7857df974e1d8209716e7ec1
> Time added:            | 2012-06-11 11:50:53
> Build started:         | 2012-06-11 11:49:09
> Build finished:        | 2012-06-11 11:50:53
> Duration:              | 104s
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> The build inputs were:
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> Name         | Type  | Value
> -------------+-------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> hydraConfig  | git   | 
> git://git.savannah.gnu.org/hydra-recipes.git:ba0050b99e7ae0f66e0cdc8287fb82accfcda76e
> gnulibSrc    | git   | 
> git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git:8cabb1a2d9e1894d373011fafd6c67924c166fa3
> nixpkgs      | svn   | https://nixos.org/repos/nix/nixpkgs/trunk:34450
> coreutilsSrc | git   | 
> git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils.git:07595ed8567368ca7857df974e1d8209716e7ec1
> tarball      | build | 2691173
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> Regards,
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> The Hydra build daemon.
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> ---
>   lib/glthread/thread.c -> tests/glthread/thread.c
>   lib/glthread/thread.h -> tests/glthread/thread.h
>   lib/glthread/yield.h -> tests/glthread/yield.h
>   lib/inet_pton.c -> tests/inet_pton.c
>   lib/ioctl.c -> tests/ioctl.c
>   lib/listen.c -> tests/listen.c
>   lib/localename.c -> tests/localename.c
>   lib/localename.h -> tests/localename.h
>   lib/perror.c -> tests/perror.c
>   lib/pipe.c -> tests/pipe.c
>   lib/setlocale.c -> tests/setlocale.c
>   lib/setsockopt.c -> tests/setsockopt.c
>   lib/sleep.c -> tests/sleep.c
>   lib/socket.c -> tests/socket.c
>   lib/strerror_r.c -> tests/strerror_r.c
>   lib/symlinkat.c -> tests/symlinkat.c
>   lib/unlinkdir.c -> tests/unlinkdir.c
>   lib/unlinkdir.h -> tests/unlinkdir.h
>   lib/usleep.c -> tests/usleep.c
>   lib/w32sock.h -> tests/w32sock.h
>   lib/wctob.c -> tests/wctob.c
>   lib/wctomb-impl.h -> tests/wctomb-impl.h
>   lib/wctomb.c -> tests/wctomb.c
>   top/GNUmakefile
>   top/maint.mk
> Creating directory ./build-aux/snippet
> Creating directory ./gnulib-tests/glthread
> Creating directory ./gnulib-tests/unistr
> Creating directory ./gnulib-tests/uniwidth
> Creating directory ./lib/glthread
> Creating directory ./lib/unistr
> Creating directory ./lib/uniwidth
> Copying file GNUmakefile
> /nix/store/0h02f2l6qbah1wil9bpan9c2flv99xv9-git-export/gnulib-tool: line 4700: 
> ./build-aux/announce-gen.tmp: Permission denied
> /nix/store/0h02f2l6qbah1wil9bpan9c2flv99xv9-git-export/gnulib-tool: *** failed
> /nix/store/0h02f2l6qbah1wil9bpan9c2flv99xv9-git-export/gnulib-tool: *** Stop.
> running: AUTOPOINT=true LIBTOOLIZE=true  autoreconf --verbose --install 
> --no-recursive -I m4
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: running: true
> autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 -I m4
> sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
> configure.ac:35: error: AC_INIT should be called with package and version 
> arguments
> /nix/store/0a9vc8x31k1crzrlb18rh277v8mjrg1k-automake-1.11.2/share/aclocal-1.11/init.m4:26:
>  AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...
> configure.ac:35: the top level
> autom4te: /nix/store/62pf2m8kv7zmghkpgnngd2hh7r163xs4-gnum4-1.4.16/bin/m4 
> failed with exit status: 1
> .aclocal-wrapped: 
> /nix/store/8msk42sv3zx1xbkrf3vck6g99mnbjzsv-autoconf-2.68/bin/autom4te failed 
> with exit status: 1
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
> build time elapsed:  0m0.034s 0m0.025s 0m27.090s 0m52.932s
> Copying build directory to 
> /nix/store/1hqvk6chfz4q3mvz1fviq4cg3d7gxcj4-coreutils-tarball-0pre07595ed8567368ca7857df974e1d8209716e7ec1/nix-build-3ya9v10145ky17mcc62aabivhnkpsqfh-coreutils-tarball-0pre07595ed8567368ca7857df974e1d8209716e7ec1.drv-0
> build failed with exit code 1 (ignored)
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