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[Robert Collins <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So the problems went deeper. All going well it will be solidly fixed
in an hour or so.

Some details:
 - the new timeout based leaked thread code had a bug; this is fixed
in devel and db-devel
 - behind that, zope.testing's subunit formatter was generating an
error even if we ignored a thread leak
 - and behind *that* there was a logic error in the timeout based
thread leaking code which made test_slow_thread into a race condition:
if the timer thread exited during the inner loop of the check, then
the loop would break early but the variable used to detect problems
was not refreshed, and so an error was reported.

I don't think there are any remaining issues; a branch fixing the last
2 is with PQM now.

Of those issues, the 1st and last affected buildbot, the middle
affected ec2 and hudson only.

-Rob