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[Robert Collins <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Gavin Panella
<gavin.panella@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 1 June 2011 14:17, Henning Eggers <henning.eggers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I and Abel have been getting these back from ec2 test runs. It happens on
>> different branches. Looks like it fails to send the report email because of a
>> size restriction violation.
>>
>> Anybody seen this before? Is this a known problem or should I invest time to
>> find out what this is about.
>
> I've encountered this problem. I think it's because we're getting logs
> back as test details from view tests (or tests running in particular
> layers... I've not dug to find out where they're coming from). These
> can be fairly long, and if there are enough failures the test result
> log ends up being huge.
>
> It would be cool if the process that emails the results back from ec2
> could, if it encounters an error like this, instead paste the results
> somewhere (http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/ comes to mind) and email a link
> to it.

There is a subunit table designed for this, but I have sucked in terms
of getting all the bits joined to let it work.

-Rob