Subject: Re: 503 Backend fetch failed errors
To: =?UTF-8?Q?R=c3=a9mi_Zara?= <remi_zara@mac.com>
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From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 09:01:13 +0100
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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 ;)


We will further investige...


Stefan