and autopkgtest hangs? Re: Build failures without a build log

[Rebecca N. Palmer]

Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 06:44:19PM +0100, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote:
>> Thanks - the retry worked for pandas and theano.
>> 
>> statsmodels failed because it was temporarily BD-Uninstallable - this should
>> now be fixed, so please retry it if that doesn't happen automatically.
> 
> Those particular kinds of failures aren't detectable automatically by
> the usual retry-depwait mechanism.  I've retried them.

Most of them worked, but statsmodels/riscv64 failed without a log again. 
  Is the infrastructure problem ongoing?

> 
>> Could this have also affected autopkgtests?  pandas is now being held in
>> -proposed because a snakemake autopkgtest hung:
>> https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/update_excuses.html#pandas
>> https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-groovy/groovy/amd64/s/snakemake/20200817_223057_9ce51@/log.gz
> 
> I don't think so, but an autopkgtest person should probably have a look.
> (autopkgtest and Launchpad shares cloud infrastructure, but Launchpad
> doesn't operate autopkgtest as such.)

It might be an unrelated hang - several of my packages sometimes do that 
(on Ubuntu but not Debian) and we're not sure why:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2020-May/018689.html

Retrying it would be a good idea either way.