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From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: sysadmins <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: 503 Backend fetch failed errors
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 09:19:22 +0100
Message-ID: <CABUevExk3ytB9JPuamcpAy-d75j24JwQ657+Y-Jgt3MYuaK-Qg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 9:01 AM Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 11/7/18 6:40 PM, Rémi Zara wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> Hi Rémi!
>
> >
> > I’m getting a lot of these errors with coypu (several per day), but not
> systematically.
> > Is this a problem on my end, or is this on the sever end ?
> >
> > Query for: stage=OK&animal=coypu&ts=1541573277
> > Target:
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgstatus.pl/53b137e7c765b781699bbe73e3aec7751a8c4ab7
> > Status Line: 503 Backend fetch failed
> > Web txn failed with status: 1
> > Query for: stage=OK&animal=coypu&ts=1541575423
> > Target:
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgstatus.pl/5e8e0913dc9f9a580a4125264d74fff95f26c926
> > Status Line: 503 Backend fetch failed
> > Web txn failed with status: 1
>
> given the error this is something that is created by the varnish
> instance that is in front of the buildfarm. On a quick look I could
> immediately figure out what the problem is - but it looks like you (or
> somebody else) tried at least to click one of the links above using hist
> desktop browser and got an error about a missing branch specification ;)
>
>
>
AFAICT:

A quick look in the logs indicates that the buildfarm is responding:
-   RespHeader     Status: 492 bad branch parameter

However, 492 is not a valid http status code, so Varnish can't handle it
and thus returns 503 failure to the client.


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