Win-10 lockups (was Re: Branching proposal for 2.7.x)

[John Ralls]

> On Aug 28, 2017, at 5:07 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
> 
>> We're almost ready to release 2.7.0, I just need to figure out why the
>> build script locks up the Win10 VM build server.
> 
> If we can figure this out, that would be useful.  Are we sure it's the
> build script?  Can you reliably reproduce it?  If so, maybe I can watch
> the VM logs in "real time" while you cause the lock-up and maybe I'll
> see something.  But I think it's a lock-up inside the VM, and not
> necessarily in the VM system itself.  The reason I think this is that we
> can still connect to the console but the system is just not responsive.
> 
> I'll ask on the ovirt list to see if anyone else has seen this.
> 

Well, it happened only when I was working on the build script. On the other hand I've been working on the build script on my local Win10 VM (vmware fusion) for the last two days without any lockups. I've still got a couple of issues to resolve there thanks to some updates from Mingw-w64 and I'll be afk most of today. It will probably be Thursday before I'm ready to try again on the ovirt VM.

Regards,
John Ralls