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This is affecting nightlies and also 1.9.0-RC2 - the latter will be released without new Debian installer packages I think, as we already have RC1s which work reasonably (subject to #11069).

I was able to produce this error from xsltproc:

Erro:  no refentry: No refentry elements found in "foreman\-insta  foreman\-installer(8)

Edit: but actually, this did not cause the process to exit non-zero. Also I see no recent changes to the man page in a while.

xsltproc exit code 5 means:

5: error in the stylesheet

Maybe that helps narrow it down?

Possibly worth a separate ticket, but in http://ci.theforeman.org/job/packaging_build_deb_coreproject/2198/label=debian,os=precise/console the failure is

03:27:26 a2x: ERROR: xsltproc  --stringparam callout.graphics 0 --stringparam navig.graphics 0 --stringparam admon.textlabel 1 --stringparam admon.graphics 0  /etc/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/manpage.xsl /var/lib/workspace/workspace/packaging_build_deb_coreproject/label/debian/os/precise/debian/precise/build-foreman-installer/foreman-installer-1.10.0/_build/foreman-installer.8.xml returned non-zero exit status 9

xsltproc exit code 9 means:

9: internal processing error

Interesting, I hadn't noticed that the exit code was changing, even stranger.

Indeed, the man page hasn't changed for a long time. It hasn't changed at all when it's broken or fixed, and I can't see any pattern to it. Our RPM man page contains Puppet class parameter documentation, but the Debian one never got that functionality added, so it's static.

My only thoughts have been, a) the date generated at the bottom changes, b) possibly some OOM type of condition on our builders. I just checked dmesg on the builder that threw the exit code 9 linked from your comment and there's not been a single OOM.

Apart from the one instance you linked to of the exit code 9 on Ubuntu 12.04/precise, all other failures have been on all four OSes too, and all four start working at the same time. Usually builds run across both physical hosts simultaneously, two OSes on each (each has two slots allocated).

And returned.

http://ci.theforeman.org/job/packaging_build_deb_coreproject/2309/

00:03:25.190 a2x: ERROR: "xsltproc"  --stringparam callout.graphics 0 --stringparam navig.graphics 0 --stringparam admon.textlabel 1 --stringparam admon.graphics 0  "/etc/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/manpage.xsl" "/var/lib/workspace/workspace/packaging_build_deb_coreproject/label/debian/os/wheezy/debian/wheezy/build-foreman-installer/foreman-installer-1.10.0/_build/foreman-installer.8.xml" returned non-zero exit status 5
00:03:25.199 rake aborted!
00:03:25.199 Command failed with status (1): [a2x -d manpage -f manpage /var/lib/workspa...]