[GHC DevOps Group] CircleCI question

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

Hi Ben,

Jonas is on holiday until Monday so his reachability is limited. Having
said that…

On 11/23/2017 06:45 PM, Ben Gamari wrote:
> 
> Hi Jonas,
> 
> I'm hoping that you can perhaps shed light on the status of this build
> [1] as the interface is a bit perplexing. All at once the interface
> suggests that:
> 
>  * The build has "failed" and finished 23 minutes ago
> 
>  * "There was an issue while running this container and it was rerun."
>    Note the use of past tense, perhaps
>    suggesting that the build was rerun and finished? The second sentence
>    is quite mysterious; is the "most recent run" the failed run or the
> 
>  * "The most recent run is shown." Presumably this is the re-run.
> 
>  * The build is still running.
> 
> I honestly am not sure what I am supposed to do with information.
> It sounds as though there was an infrastructure issue on their end,
> causing the last attempted build to fail and resulting in a rerun, which
> is still ongoing. However, the email notification they sent claimed that
> there was an unexpected exit code (seemingly during the test step):

I had a ticket about this with CircleCI. They have told me after a
week-ish that it was fixed on their end and I did not see any new builds
with this problem. Perhaps it's a regression. The ticket number in their
system is 26023. Should I raise a new one or you want to?

>     ------
>     Failed
>     ------
> 
>     Uh-oh, this build did not succeed!
> 
>     ...
> 
>     ----------------
>     Failing command:
>     ----------------
>     Command: Error executing build steps
>     Exit code:  n/a
> 
>     ------
>     Output
>     ------
>     Unexpected error running build task: exit status 255
> 
> 
>     -----------------------------------------
>     The rest of your commands were successful
>     -----------------------------------------
> 
>       Spin up Environment
>       Checkout code
>       prepare-system
>       submodules
>       Boot
>       Configure
>       Build
> 
> In general I'm a bit confused as to why they are notifying us of
> spurious build failures.
> 
> Have you seen this sort of behavior before? Does the above
> interpretation sound correct? Is there any way to reduce the volume of
> notifications to *only* actual failed builds?

I'm not sure about notifications.

> Cheers,
> 
> - Ben
> 
> 
> [1] https://circleci.com/gh/ghc/ghc/389
>     Screenshot here: http://home.smart-cactus.org/~ben/circleci.png
> 


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Mateusz K.