Re: MSBuild fatal errors when build triggered by timer
gordin
I run into the same error using a customized build system which uses Visual
Studio's devenv.exe under the hood to compile our VisualStudio 2005 projects
(VC++). I start two parallel builds (on different code base) every night.
Always, the second job will fail with "Fatal error C1090: PDB API call
failed, error code '23' : '(" in exactly the same second the first job
finishes processing.
I analysed this thoroughly and can track the problem down to mspdbsrv.exe
which is automatically spawned when building a VisualStudio project. All
Visual Studio instances share one common pdb-server which shutdown itself
after a idle period (standard is 10 minutes).
I assume that jenkins will clean up when a automatically started job
finishes (like as described at
http://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Aborting+a+build). I checked
mspbsrv.exe with ProcessExplorer and the process indeed has a variable
JENKINS_COOKIE/HUDSON_COOKIE set in its environment if started implicitly by
devenv.exe through jenkins. Don't know if this is evidence for my theory.
But, I can work around the problem by starting the pdb-server manually (not
from within jenkins). Unfortunately, the program is not documented, but the
important parameters are "-start -spawn -shutdowntime <seconds> -verbose"
(see
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vcgeneral/thread/b1d1bceb-06b6-47ef-a0ea-23ea752e0c4f/).
Furthermore I need to configure a rather long idle time period because I do
not know when the actual build starts (the jobs need to update a very large
codebase from a cvsnt server, first). I don't know if there are any caveats
when setting the shutdown time to large. As said earlier, the tool is
undocumented, standard idle time is 10 minutes. I use a idle time of 5
hours. This works ok for me so far.
Long story short, while it is a handy feature to clean up after a build, the
mechanism fails with Visual Studio's mspdbserv.exe which, when killed
instead of gracyfully shut down after a idle period, will crash other
builds.
I'm using Jenkins ver. 1.399
Any comments? Should I fill in a bug report for this issue?
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Christoph Vogtländer
> gordin wrote:
> > Any comments? Should I fill in a bug report for this issue?
>
> a bug report, I will. :)
I tried to get an account to be able to get access to JIRA, but I never got
the promised E-Mail. So, if you have an account please feel free to submit
the bug report.
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Erik Ramfelt
Christoph Vogtländer
> I know there has been problems in the past getting that signup email, have
> you tried logging in anyway?
I do not have a password. I never got the initial mail. I also tried "Reset
your password" without luck.
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cek
gordin wrote:
>
> Any comments? Should I fill in a bug report for this issue?
>
bug report, I will. :)
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Christoph Vogtländer
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Christoph
On Thursday 10 March 2011 02:01:10 cek wrote:
> gordin wrote:
> > Any comments? Should I fill in a bug report for this issue?
>
> I am seeing exactly the same issue and symptoms here. If you don't submit
> a bug report, I will. :)
>
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