Should we disable auto-update of system packages? #3962
Description
Originally posted by @richardlau in #3754 (comment)
Should we disable auto-update of system packages?
That's a good question. On the one hand it would mean no unexpected surprises but the onus is then back on us to keep the systems reasonably up-to-date. Maybe we should schedule regular (monthly?) maintenance windows for applying routine package updates?
@nodejs/build-infra thoughts?
This manifests as Jenkins being unable to spawn git/bash after an automatic Java Runtime Environment update until the Jenkins agent is restarted, e.g.
09:26:33 ERROR: Error cloning remote repo 'origin'
09:26:33 hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Could not init /home/iojs/build/workspace/node-test-commit
09:26:33 at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$5.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1073)
...
09:26:33 Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "git" (in directory "/home/iojs/build/workspace/node-test-commit"): error=0, Failed to exec spawn helper: pid: 1881683, exit value: 1
09:26:33 at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1143)
...
09:26:33 Caused by: java.io.IOException: error=0, Failed to exec spawn helper: pid: 1881683, exit value: 1
09:26:33 at java.base/java.lang.ProcessImpl.forkAndExec(Native Method)This has affected the Ubuntu machines:
- java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "git" #3754
java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "git"on test-equinix-ubuntu2204-x64-1 / test-equinix-ubuntu2204-x64-2 #3643
and also Debian:
Alternatively maybe there's a way to have the Systemd service running the Jenkins agent to restart if Java gets updated.