Bug 110069

Summary: GCE EWS bots are all offline
Product: WebKit Reporter: Alan Cutter <alancutter>
Component: Tools / TestsAssignee: Alan Cutter <alancutter>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal CC: abarth, dpranke, eric, tony, webkit.review.bot
Priority: P2    
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description Alan Cutter 2013-02-17 19:08:01 PST 
All the GCE bots were terminated over the weekend.
Bots affected:
 - commit-queue
 - cr-linux-ews/chromium-ews
 - cr-linux-debug-ews
 - style-queue
 - feeder-queue
 - sheriffbot

The problem is the image we were using (ubuntu-10-04-v20120621) was obsoleted.
CE recommends using gcel-10-04-v20130104 instead.

The hard coded /dev/vdb no longer exists, we should be using /dev/ephemeral-disk-0 to access the ephemeral disk.
Comment 1 Alan Cutter 2013-02-17 21:56:18 PST 
A partition on /dev/ephemeral-disk-0 is created as /dev/ephemeral-disk-0-part1.
These are soft links to /dev/sdb and /dev/sdb1 respectively.
The soft links are not always created in time for the script to use them and it fails to create a fs or mount it. This happened in 12/15 cases.
With this is mind it is better to use /dev/sdb and /dev/sdb1 directly. If the image changes again in future this will be a thing to lookout for in case it differs again.

Another difference on this image is that /etc/hosts doesn't have general read access thus things are unable to connect to localhost. This breaks the DRT tests.
Will need to "sudo chmod 644 /etc/hosts" as part of the VM build.
Comment 2 Alan Cutter 2013-02-17 22:14:38 PST 
Created attachment 188797 [details]
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Comment 3 Eric Seidel (no email) 2013-02-17 22:16:56 PST 
Comment on attachment 188797 [details]
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View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=188797&action=review

Looks reasonable.

> Tools/EWSTools/build-vm.sh:61
> +sudo chmod 644 /etc/hosts

?!?
Comment 4 Alan Cutter 2013-02-17 22:23:04 PST 
(In reply to comment #3)
> (From update of attachment 188797 [details])
> View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=188797&action=review
> 
> Looks reasonable.
> 
> > Tools/EWSTools/build-vm.sh:61
> > +sudo chmod 644 /etc/hosts
> 
> ?!?

Haha, I too am perplexed that it needed this. It was 640 by default meaning you couldn't ping localhost!
Comment 5 Eric Seidel (no email) 2013-02-17 22:24:45 PST 
Comment on attachment 188797 [details]
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View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=188797&action=review

>>> Tools/EWSTools/build-vm.sh:61
>>> +sudo chmod 644 /etc/hosts
>> 
>> ?!?
> 
> Haha, I too am perplexed that it needed this. It was 640 by default meaning you couldn't ping localhost!

!?  That sounds like a config error in the default image?

I wonder if it warrants a GCE bug.
Comment 6 WebKit Review Bot 2013-02-17 23:46:07 PST 
Comment on attachment 188797 [details]
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Clearing flags on attachment: 188797

Committed r143156: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/143156>
Comment 7 WebKit Review Bot 2013-02-17 23:46:11 PST 
All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.