Hi All, So this build was ‘flapping’, i.e. passing/failing nearly every other build.
http://ci.apache.org/builders/openoffice-linux32-nightly?numbuilds=50 <http://ci.apache.org/builders/openoffice-linux32-nightly?numbuilds=50> This was mainly due to the use of the method=‘copy’ way of updating the source tree. The SVN step performs two things when in ‘copy’ mode, it does a checkout to a ‘source’ directory and then does a copy from there to the ‘build’ directory. The first has a default timeout of 1200 whilst the latter has a (currently) unconfigurable timeout of 120. It is the latter 120 timeout during copy that makes the build fail, about 50% of the time it hits the timeout limit before the copy is complete and so the build fails. I have changed from using "mode=‘full', method=‘copy’” to using "mode=‘incremental’” which basically means use ‘svn update’ directly on the build directory. I believe this will stabilise this particular build. (I can’t remember why mode=copy was used originally.) All the other builds also still use mode=copy but I haven’t spotted a failing pattern with those so far because of it. HTH Gav…
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