abderrahim opened a new issue, #2020: URL: https://github.com/apache/buildstream/issues/2020
When using remote execution, if a build fails the failure is saved in the action cache. However builds can fail for a variety of reasons (e.g. running out of resources) that are not necessarily reproducible. Buildstream offers to retry at the command line and also offers the `--retry-failed` command line argument for this purpose. However, it will still get a cached failure from the action cache. Here is an example log (I extracted just the things relevant to the element in question): ``` [11:08:35][--:--:--][8524a2f2][ pull:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] START freedesktop-sdk/components-fontconfig/8524a2f2-pull.20250611-110835.log [11:08:35][--:--:--][8524a2f2][ pull:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] STATUS Pulling artifact 8524a2f2 <- https://gbm.gnome.org:11004 [11:08:35][--:--:--][8524a2f2][ pull:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] STATUS Pulling data for artifact 8524a2f2 <- https://gbm.gnome.org:11004 [11:08:35][--:--:--][8524a2f2][ pull:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] INFO Pulled artifact 8524a2f2 <- https://gbm.gnome.org:11004 [11:08:35][--:--:--][8524a2f2][ pull:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] INFO Discarded failed build [11:08:35][00:00:00][8524a2f2][ pull:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] SKIPPED Pull [11:08:35][--:--:--][8524a2f2][ fetch:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] START freedesktop-sdk/components-fontconfig/8524a2f2-fetch.20250611-110835.log [11:08:35][--:--:--][8524a2f2][ fetch:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] STATUS Pulling source 031032b8 <- https://gbm.gnome.org:11004 [11:08:36][--:--:--][8524a2f2][ fetch:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] STATUS Pulling data for source 031032b8 <- https://gbm.gnome.org:11004 [11:08:36][--:--:--][8524a2f2][ fetch:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] INFO Pulled source 031032b8 <- https://gbm.gnome.org:11004 [11:08:36][00:00:00][8524a2f2][ fetch:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] SUCCESS freedesktop-sdk/components-fontconfig/8524a2f2-fetch.20250611-110835.log [11:08:37][--:--:--][8524a2f2][ build:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] START freedesktop-sdk/components-fontconfig/8524a2f2-build.20250611-110837.log [11:08:37][--:--:--][8524a2f2][ build:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] START Staging dependencies at: / [11:09:04][00:00:26][8524a2f2][ build:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] SUCCESS Staging dependencies at: / [11:09:04][--:--:--][8524a2f2][ build:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] START Integrating sandbox [11:09:32][--:--:--][8524a2f2][ build:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] INFO Action result found in action cache [11:09:48][00:00:44][8524a2f2][ build:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] SUCCESS Integrating sandbox [11:09:48][--:--:--][8524a2f2][ build:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] START Staging sources [11:09:48][00:00:00][8524a2f2][ build:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] SUCCESS Staging sources [11:09:48][--:--:--][8524a2f2][ build:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] START Running commands [11:09:48][--:--:--][8524a2f2][ build:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] INFO Action result found in action cache [11:09:49][00:00:00][8524a2f2][ build:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] FAILURE Running commands [11:09:49][--:--:--][8524a2f2][ build:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] START Caching artifact [11:09:49][00:00:00][8524a2f2][ build:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] SUCCESS Caching artifact [11:09:49][00:01:11][8524a2f2][ build:freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/fontconfig.bst] FAILURE Command failed ``` You can see that bst pulled a cached failure and promptly discarded it, but it then proceeded to get the failed action from the action cache and not actually retry the build. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
