[pkg-go] Bug#907171: prometheus FTBFS:

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 04:57:49PM +0100, Martín Ferrari wrote:
> On 27/08/18 16:51, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> >>> panic: Can't start web handler:listen tcp :9090: bind: address
> already in use
> 
> > I am not talking about autopkgtests, I am talking about a FTBFS I was
> > able to reproduce locally.
> > 
> > But retrying a few more times, this might actually be a flaky test?
> 
> I have not seen this error before, I can only imagine you had some old
> process lying around, or somehow the port was still in use? Otherwise,
> it must be some concurrency issue, but as I said, I have not been able
> to reproduce this.

How often did you try?

I would say the probability to hit is somewhere around 50%:
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/history/prometheus.html

cu
Adrian

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