[isabelle-dev] http://isabelle.in.tum.de/testboard/

[Tobias Nipkow]

Thanks for fixing it. Unfortunately I cannot push to it anymore, it asks me for
a password.

Tobias

Am 16/08/2012 22:40, schrieb Alexander Krauss:
> Quoting Makarius <makarius at sketis.net>:
> 
>> The end of Python vomiting has this:
>>
>> <class 'mpatch.mpatchError'>: patch cannot be decoded
>>       args = ('patch cannot be decoded',)
>>       message = 'patch cannot be decoded'
>>
>> This is the same dropout that we've had on
>> http://isabelle.in.tum.de/repos/isabelle last week.
>>
>> It could be an NFS corruption of the repository, or just the server feeling
>> too hot.  I've no real idea.
> 
> This seems to be happening regularly now, which is really very annoying. I do
> not know what the cause is. Since I'll be mostly offline starting from Saturday,
> here is how to fix it when it occurs. If it happens on the main repos, the
> mailing list should be contacted before attempting any manual repair:
> 
> * run "hg verify" on the repository. It shows some errors (that is, the
> repository is corrupted), and it also shows the revision number REV of the first
> damaged changeset.
> 
> * Strip the broken revisions (after making a backup):
> 
>   cp -a . /some/backup/location
>   hg strip -n REV
> 
> (Note: This seems to fail with the newest version installed at some machines:
> here, strip also produces an exception. However, hg 2.1.1 installed at lxbroy10
> works).
> 
> * Re-push the changesests that got stripped from some other clone.
> 
> Googling the error message is rather inconclusive. After all, it is a repo
> corrruption, but we don't know how it arises and cannot reproduce it predictably.
> 
> Who pushed to testboard today? What machines
>  were you using as gateway, i.e., what location did you push to (see .hg/hgrc
> [paths])?
> 
> Let's see if this occurs again with hte main repos, or if the recent re-coling
> eliminated the problem there.
> 
> Alex