2011-02-25 builder incident - summary

William Grant william.grant at canonical.com
Sun Feb 27 02:19:25 UTC 2011


On 27/02/11 11:55, William Grant wrote:
> On 27/02/11 04:45, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> On Friday, February 25, 2011 09:00:05 pm Kate Stewart wrote:
>>> Dear Developers,
>>>
>>>    Earlier today (14:39 UTC) our builders had their sudo package updated
>>> to 1.7.2p1-1ubuntu5.3 from Version: 1.6.9p10-1ubuntu3.8.  This had an
>>> unexpected side affect of setting the permissions with different
>>> defaults.  This resulted in bad permissions being generated for several
>>> packages that otherwise built successfully.  This change has now been
>>> reverted.
>>>
>>> The affected packages have been rebuilt and the builders have been
>>> turned on again.
>>>
>>> A list of the known affected packages between 14:39 UTC and 21:13 UTC
>>> (when we turned off the builders) can be found:
>>>
>>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/572428/
>>>
>>> If you are aware of other packages that could have been affected, after
>>> checking their permissions,  please join us on #ubuntu-devel to discuss.
>>>
>>> Thanks,  Kate
>>
>> It's not clear this is finished. Some additional suspicious builds were 
>> identified and the i386/amd64 builders are on manual again.
> 
> Five of the builders were not properly fixed (sudo was not downgraded).
> This has now been resolved, and the build farm is back. Misbuilt
> packages will be reuploaded once we work out what was affected.
> 
> I'll watch for more breakage throughout the day, and hopefully remember
> to reply to this thread if something shows up again.

fpc was the only public misbuilt package. It has now built correctly.

William.

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