[MacPorts] #60112: 10.13 buildbot worker is down

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#60112: 10.13 buildbot worker is down
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  Reporter:  ryandesign      |      Owner:  admin@…
      Type:  defect          |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal          |  Milestone:
 Component:  server/hosting  |    Version:
Resolution:                  |   Keywords:
      Port:                  |
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Comment (by ryandesign):

 Replying to [comment:4 fhgwright]:
 > I sometimes see that problem here (VMware Fusion 8.5.10, OSX 10.9.5, Mac
 Pro 5,1), particularly with 10.13.  Once it's been frozen long enough that
 I'm convinced that it's really stuck and not just slow, I do a restart
 from the VMware menu, and it usually comes right up.  It seems to be less
 prone to happening if I avoid booting multiple VMs simultaneously (i.e.,
 stagger the startups across the VMs).

 This does not seem to be what's happening here. We've never had any
 intermittent problems booting this or the other VMs when the disk was
 working. And now, following the restoration from backup, it is also not
 intermittently failing to boot; it is always failing to boot. We use
 VMware ESXi and it does stagger VM startups, but that's also not
 applicable here as the problem happens even when booting only this single
 VM.

 > BTW, one should never rely on SSDs for primary storage.

 I'd like to keep this ticket specific to any issues related to getting the
 10.13 worker back online. Your observation is a more general critique of
 our infrastructure and I'd like to move that to its own ticket; I filed
 #60178.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/60112#comment:5>
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