travis builds time out -- then keep restarting ???

[Rainer Müller]

On 01/02/2018 11:13 AM, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Sep 15 15:37:01, ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com wrote:
>> Something funny is going on with travis today.
>> The builds keep restarting after timing out at 48 mins, I think
>> <https://travis-ci.org/macports/macports-ports/jobs/275966013>
> 
> On Sep 17 06:28:57, ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com wrote:
>> this is still going on. some travis builds have been running almost 6 hours, which would be great if they finally built something, but looks like it just keeps resetting and starting over...
> 
> On Sep 17 15:35:44, raimue at macports.org wrote:
>> Must be an error on the side of Travis. Our configuration just runs the
>> command and whatever causes it to restart after the timeout must be
>> something at Travis.
> 
> On Sep 17 15:53:23, raimue at macports.org wrote:
>> I do not think it is our issue if it also happens for base, for which
>> our configuration is minimal.
>> Did anyone inform them? Maybe it slipped through their monitoring.
> 
> It is still happening, see e.g.
> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/1186

This looks like a normal timeout. The build finished and I see no restarts.

The timeout after 50 minutes is expected. This is a limitation of Travis CI and
cannot be increased. Pull requests for ports that need longer to build cannot be
tested automatically.

Rainer