Regular priority assemblies will not be created in TFS 2010

Question

I have two build process installations in TFS 2010. One build starts when any developer checks the code in TFS. The second build takes place every night at 12:30. I see that assemblies have a priority of Normal in the queue. However, the queue in the queue never starts until I change the priority to high. They will sit in line forever until priority is changed.

It appears that the queue that is stuck creates a normal priority. However, I cannot find him. I can choose and not see anything other than these assemblies in the queue. I can run them all, and the next day I queued up the assembly again. I am talking about this because I see that the build service is configured for port 9192, which makes me believe that there is or was another build service on port 9191.

Any idea how to solve this problem?

thanks

Answer 1

I ended up deleting the usual priority entry from the tbl_BuildQueue table. Apparently the problem is resolved.

Answer 2

I had the same problem when only assemblies that were "Above Normal", or high priority, would really build.

I tried to restart the build service, controller, and agents without any consequences. There were no errors in the event log.

It turned out that in the tbl_BuildQueue table there are 2 rows for assembly definitions that I recently deleted. Changing the state of these lines from 2 (queues) to 16 (Canceled) fixed the problem for me.

Here are some links that helped me figure this out:

http://networkprogramming.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/default-controller-cannot-be-deleted-because-there-are-builds-in-progress/

http://blog.hinshelwood.com/ghost-team-foundation-build-controllers

Answer 3

Removing lines from 'tbl_BuildQueue' fixed this for me.

Answer 4

I had a similar problem with assemblies not ... building! I had to restart the controller / assembly agent, which seemed to fix it.

While you are there, the assembly configuration checks the event log for errors, does anything appear?