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[Paride Legovini <2025745@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Testbed failures are not actual test failures, and there's logic in the
autopkgtest-cloud worker script to detect them and retry the test (it is
put back in the queue). However there are cases where some tests can
fail in a way that is detected as a testbed failure. This results in an
infinite retry loop which keeps the workers busy.

We should improve this retry logic, perhaps limiting the number of
retries then a testbed failure happens.

** Affects: auto-package-testing
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Some testbed failures result in infinite retry loops

Status in Auto Package Testing:
  New

Bug description:
  Testbed failures are not actual test failures, and there's logic in
  the autopkgtest-cloud worker script to detect them and retry the test
  (it is put back in the queue). However there are cases where some
  tests can fail in a way that is detected as a testbed failure. This
  results in an infinite retry loop which keeps the workers busy.

  We should improve this retry logic, perhaps limiting the number of
  retries then a testbed failure happens.

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