[Python-Dev] buildbot svn exceptions again... (original) (raw)

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Sun May 16 19:53:23 CEST 2010


Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

Bill Janssen wrote: > parc-leopard-1 (and most of the other builders) are failing the svn > checkout with the following error: > > svn: PROPFIND of '/projects/python/trunk': Could not resolve hostname > `svn.python.org': Temporary failure in name resolution > (http://svn.python.org) > > When I log into that machine as "buildbot" and do the svn checkout > manually using the following command > > /usr/bin/svn checkout --non-interactive --no-auth-cache --revision > HEAD http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk build > > it works fine.

That's a common OSX problem/bug. Processes occasionally lose the ability to resolve host names.

A workaround is to just put them in the /etc/hosts file.

Bill



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