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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Lange wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Jonathan Lange<jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Tom Haddon<tom.haddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 08:39 +1000, Jonathan Lange wrote:
>>>> Hey everyone,
>>>>
>>>> The 'lp' build slave is down, and looks like it has been for some
>>>> time. This means that no new changes will land to staging.
>>>>
>>>> I don't have privs or knowledge enough to fix this, sadly.
>>>>
>>>> LOSAs, if you're around could you please give buildbot a prod? If not,
>>>> I guess we'll wait until Monday.
>>> I tried using "the force" [1], but it's obviously not strong in this
>>> one. So I restarted it instead.
>>>
>>> [1] https://lpbuildbot.canonical.com/force
>>>
>>> Thanks, Tom
> 
> Hmm. No joy.
> 
> It looked like the restart worked, but the buildbot wasn't going to do
> any actual building. I then forced a build of the 'lp' bot, and it
> looks like it has failed with 'substantiate failed' again.

We should probably increase the timeout we wait for an instance to
substantiate.  Oh, and fix this bug: http://buildbot.net/trac/ticket/613

It really shouldn't take 20 minutes to boot an instance though :(

> Perhaps next time I'll do a dummy commit :(

It wouldn't have helped, sadly.

Cheers,
mwh