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Rebooting Dragon

Dragon runs the Jenkins controller and a number of Jenkins Agents and thus rebooting it may cause inconveniences to developers in case thery're working on a release (check the release calendar) or even just waiting for job results.

When to avoid rebooting

  • During the weekend before a release (starting friday), as jobs that update Tor Browser are automatically run in that period (*-tor-browser-*+force-all-tests jobs).

  • During the 2 days a release takes (this could screw up the whole RM's schedule for these 2 days).

  • Until a couple of days after a release, as lots of users might be upgrading during this period.

Reboot steps

  1. Make sure it is not an inconvenient moment to reboot Jenkins VM and agents (see "Restarting Jenkins" below if you're unsure).

  2. Announce it in IRC 15 minutes in advance.

  3. Take note of which jobs are running in Jenkins.

  4. Reboot (see notes.mdwn for info about how to unlock LUKS).

  5. Once everything is back up, reschedule the aborted Jenkins jobs, replacing any test_Tails_* by their build_Tails_* counterparts. (Rationale: this is simpler than coming up with the parameters needed to correctly start the test_Tails_* jobs).