no Job ID was provided in the time required (Was: Please rebuild your packages in Fedora Extras development)

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 00:18 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 06:03 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > >   Please check to make sure the job did
> > > not actually get enqueued.
> > How about you fixing your code to not produce false alarms, if you are
> > sure these are false alarms?
> 
> To be perfectly fair, the error message doesn't say "The buildsys is
> hung", it says just what it means; that the build system didn't give you
> a job ID.  The only reason that this message attained the connotations
> it did, was because I kept asking people both on this list and on
> #fedora-extras to report instances of this message.  Since that's no
> longer the case, I'd like to officially change the connotation that this
> error message has to "check the web UI for your job for 5 minutes after
> you submit your job, then report."
> 
> If you'd like, I can increase the plague-client timeout to 20s such that
> it will almost always give you a job ID.  However, that's really just
> papering over the problem.  In the long run, we need to evaluate how to
> deal with sqlite's table locking issues,

Would dumping sqlite to use the postgresql instance on the buildmaster
help the locking issue?

-sv