[packman] Workers for x86/_64 are borked :-)

[Stefan Seyfried]

Hi Bjørn,

On 29.09.23 17:23, Bjørn Lie wrote:
> Heads-up people - seems the build workers are on strike.
> 
> When checking a scheduled build -> the following msg appears:
> 
> waiting for 8 compliant workers (1 of them down) (7 of them bad)
> 
> 
> And when a package does try to build - this is a snippet from the logs:
> 
> [ 0s] booting kvm...
> [ 0s] ### VM INTERACTION START ###
> [ 0s] Using UART console
> [ 0s] /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -nodefaults -no-reboot -nographic -vga none -cpu 
> host -M pc,accel=kvm,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off,vmport=off -sandbox on 
> -bios /usr/share/qemu/qboot.rom -object 
> rng-random,filename=/dev/random,id=rng0 -device virtio-rng-pci,rng=rng0 
> -runas qemu -mem-prealloc -mem-path /dev/hugetlbfs -net none -kernel 
> /boot/vmlinuz -initrd /boot/initrd -append root=/dev/sda rootfstype=ext4 

[...]

> This goes on and on until
> 
> [ 193s] Generating "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt"
> [ 193s]
> [ 193s]
> [ 193s] Entering emergency mode. Exit the shell to continue.
> [ 193s] Type "journalctl" to view system logs.
> [ 193s] You might want to save "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt" to a USB 
> stick or /boot
> [ 193s] after mounting them and attach it to a bug report.
> [ 193s]
> [ 193s]
> [ 193s] Give root password for maintenance

Is this failing for all builds? Or only for certain distributions?
It seems like some "VMinstall: kernel-obs-build" is missing from the 
prjconf (or it is trying to build for a distribution that's not 
providing a kernel-obs-build), and the host's initrd is not good enough 
for an OBS build VM.

-kernel /boot/vmlinuz --initrd /boot/initrd

You have to be lucky if that works nowadays with hostonly initrds.
-- 
Stefan Seyfried

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over
  public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman