Backport shm size fix into versions of gitlab-qa used in failing stable branch backports
Many tests in e2e-package-and-test are failing with various errors, including error 500.
This was reported in gitlab-org/quality/engineering-productivity/master-broken-incidents#7229 (closed) and the fix was identified as:
...we updated
gitlab-qato run the gitlab container with ashm_sizeof256mb!1336 (merged) (note: this is the recommended shm_size)
However:
This problem is now occurring in backports also (which do not have the
gitlab-qachange)...
Example pipeline with failing jobs: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/pipelines/1367057981
We should see if we can backport the fix so that stable branch pipelines can pass.
It will be very tricky because gitlab-qa can contain incompatible changes with older rails code. It's quite possible it would require backport releases of gitlab-qa itself to make it work on oldest backports.
I think it might be easier to revert the runners cpu cores increase.
Or to not have to create a full backport release, in gitlab-qa repo, we can branch off from last compatible version for specific backport version, add this fix there and add branch in the gemfile rather than release.
See gitlab-org/quality/engineering-productivity/master-broken-incidents#7229 (comment 2000852667) for more suggestions
There could be more than one gitlab-qa version for each stable branch, but we should only need to fix the latest. See gitlab!158257 (closed) for a list of gitlab-qa versions for 16-7-stable-ee and prior.
| Stable branch |
gitlab-qa backport MR |
gitlab backport MR |
Status |
|---|---|---|---|
17-2-stable-ee |
N/A | N/A | N/A |
17-1-stable-ee |
!1341 (merged) (branch is deleted?) | gitlab!161668 (merged) (this MR is using 17-0 branch of gitlab-qa) | |
17-0-stable-ee |
!1346 (merged) | gitlab!161553 (merged) | |
16-11-stable-ee |
!1348 (merged) | gitlab!161667 (merged) | |
16-10-stable-ee |
!1347 (merged) | gitlab!161696 (merged) | |
16-9-stable-ee |
!1345 (merged) | gitlab!161697 (merged) | |
16-8-stable-ee |
!1344 (merged) | gitlab!161698 (merged) | |
16-7-stable-ee |
!1343 (merged) | gitlab!161699 (merged) | |
16-6-stable-ee |
!1355 (merged) | gitlab!161700 (merged) | |
16-5-stable-ee |
!1354 (merged) | gitlab!161701 (merged) | |
16-4-stable-ee |
!1353 (merged) | gitlab!161702 (merged) | |
16-3-stable-ee |
!1352 (merged) | gitlab!161703 (merged) | |
16-2-stable-ee |
!1351 (merged) | gitlab!161704 (merged) | |
16-1-stable-ee |
!1350 (merged) | gitlab!161705 (merged) | |
16-0-stable-ee |
!1349 (merged) | gitlab!161706 (merged) |