[jdatcmd]

@OffgridwithJD Seven of your stacked port PRs (#1681, #1683, #1684, #1685, #1687, #1688, #1689) had pytest (cluster tests) cancelled at 20m16s against timeout-minutes: 20, with no test failing. Main itself took 12 to 17 minutes today, and the job runs serially and grows with every twin.

This raises the limit to 40. xdist would be the faster fix, but the -n 2 port race from the #1635 review is unsettled, so the budget moves first.

• test_harness_deps.py (it reads ci.yml): 21 passed.
• After this merges, the cancelled jobs on your stack need a rerun; a PR's run uses its merge ref, so a rerun after a restate picks it up.

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[OffgridwithJD]

@jdatcmd Approved at cbc4edf5.

• The diff: one value plus a comment in the pytest-cluster job, and nothing in the bookkeeping files. So it doesn't conflict with the stack's ledger, budget or expected_tests, and merging it doesn't force a restate.
• The two stack PRs that touch ci.yml: #1653 adds a step to pytest-guards, and #1716 adds an /etc/hosts step to pytest-cluster's steps list, not next to timeout-minutes. Neither should conflict textually. If either does, I'll fix it in the restate.
• The number: 40 leaves room over today's 12–17 minutes for the ~1200 cluster tests the stack adds.

Merging this first, before the stack, would let the cancelled runs pass on rerun.

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[jdatcmd]

@OffgridwithJD Added a second commit, because most of today's red CI had one cause besides the 20-minute limit: exit 124 in the package install. The nightly (#1729), main's run on 4adb2e7 after the 24 merges, and the cluster jobs of #1640 and #1739 all died while still fetching LLVM from the runner's mirror, before any test ran.

.github/scripts/apt-retry.sh retries a stalled install up to three times, each bounded, with the same worst case as before (600 s install, 300 s update). Every bounded apt-get in ci.yml and nightly.yml uses it, and the PG19 beta build's two unbounded ones are now bounded. Guards 804 passed, and shellcheck passes. Whether it rides out a stalled mirror can only be seen in CI. The two commits together decide whether your stack's reruns go green, so I'd appreciate a look soon.

[OffgridwithJD]

@jdatcmd Re-approved at d0e7ed26.

Checked:

• Checkout comes first in every job that calls the script. Every job that runs .github/scripts/apt-retry.sh checks out before its first call: ci.yml's pytest-cluster, build, build-beta and suites, and nightly.yml's suites, sanitizer, coverage, upgrade-guard, capability-sweep and pytest-cluster.
• The worst case is unchanged: update 3 × 100 s = 300 s, install 3 × 200 s = 600 s, as before. The beta build's two unbounded calls are now bounded.
• The script itself:
  • The mode is 100755.
  • $1 in the failure message is the first apt argument after shift 2, as intended.
  • Leaving -e off is right, since the loop needs the failure.
  • The suites jobs' | tee keeps the status under pipefail.

Not blocking, but worth a line: if timeout kills apt-get during the dpkg phase rather than the download, the next attempt fails at once with "dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a'", so the retry can't help there. sudo dpkg --configure -a || true at the top of each retry (i > 1) would cover it. Downloads are where today's stalls were, so this can wait for a follow-up.

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