[Ubuntu-ci-announce] Upgrade of ADB hosts within the CI Lab

[Paul Larson]

We're trying to work around this and get results for smoke on mako at
least. Francis pulled a mako out of the s-jenkins pool and we did some
some work to get it up and running in the pool for the smoke tests
even though it is on a different host.  The good news, is that it's
now running image 255.  The bad news is that many, but not all, of the
autopilot tests are failing.

I'm trying to sort out what's going on, but we should have something
usable again for smoke tomorrow - either by setting up an alternate
environment, or getting IS to fix whatever hardware problems are
killing the previous smoke testing adb host.



On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Larry Works <larry.works at canonical.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> The upgrade of the ADB host ashes within the CI Lab ran into problems.
> This does not appear to be an issue with the upgrade of the OS from
> Raring to Saucy but rather an issue with the hardware itself. Currently
> when rebooting the host ashes it automatically goes into the BIOS screen
> but does accept any keyboard input so configuration changes cannot be
> made nor can the BIOS screen be exited. This issue persists whether
> using the KVM connection to the system or a USB keyboard physically
> connected to the system.
>
> The issue triggering the automatic shift into the BIOS configuration
> seems to be memory related. Further troubleshooting will occur when
> someone from IS is physically in the data center. Many thanks to Mike
> from CTS who attempted the help resolve the issue Friday evening with
> the physical keyboard.
>
> What does this mean for testing? Until ashes can be restored to service
> (or replaced if that fails) the following devices will be unavailable
> for testing:
>
> flo-01, flo-02, flo-03, maguro-01, maguro-02, maguro-03, maguro-04,
> maguro-05, maguro-06, mako-01, mako-02, mako-04, mako-05, mako-06,
> mako-07, mako-09, mako-10, mako-11, manta-01, and manta-02
>
> This will result in the following tests/jobs not being able to be run:
>
> eventstat, smem, memevent, touch-smoke-daily
>
>
> With the ADB host ashes being down it was decided not to proceed with
> the OS upgrade of the other ADB host okiku.
>
> I will send out more information on Monday.
>
> ~w
>
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