# "The build has been terminated" error is increasing on OSX in recent days

**URL:** <https://travis-ci.community/t/the-build-has-been-terminated-error-is-increasing-on-osx-in-recent-days/7736>\
**Category:** Travis CI Discussions & Feedback\
**Tags:** bug\
**Created:** [March 23, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/the-build-has-been-terminated-error-is-increasing-on-osx-in-recent-days/7736 "2020-03-23T15:48:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![falsandtru](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/travis-ci.community/falsandtru/32/3844_2.png) [@falsandtru](https://travis-ci.community/u/falsandtru)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/the-build-has-been-terminated-error-is-increasing-on-osx-in-recent-days/7736/1 "2020-03-23T15:48:02Z")

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This error is appearing on some repositories every few days.

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**Author:** ![BanzaiMan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/travis-ci.community/banzaiman/32/67_2.png) [@BanzaiMan](https://travis-ci.community/u/BanzaiMan)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/the-build-has-been-terminated-error-is-increasing-on-osx-in-recent-days/7736/2 "2020-03-23T15:55:40Z")

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When reporting problems, please consider including:

1. What you are trying to achieve
2. What you have tried (probably a link to the configuration)
3. What happened instead (often, pointing to a build log URL, in the form of [https://travis-ci.com/OWNER/REPO/build/NNNNNNN](https://travis-ci.com/OWNER/REPO/build/NNNNNNN) would be helpful).

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**Author:** ![falsandtru](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/travis-ci.community/falsandtru/32/3844_2.png) [@falsandtru](https://travis-ci.community/u/falsandtru)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/the-build-has-been-terminated-error-is-increasing-on-osx-in-recent-days/7736/3 "2020-03-23T16:04:20Z")

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Some of today’s errors

[https://travis-ci.org/github/falsandtru/spica/jobs/665915407](https://travis-ci.org/github/falsandtru/spica/jobs/665915407)  
[https://travis-ci.org/github/falsandtru/spica/jobs/665895372](https://travis-ci.org/github/falsandtru/spica/jobs/665895372)

I saw the error about 4 times today. Too frequent.

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**Author:** ![falsandtru](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/travis-ci.community/falsandtru/32/3844_2.png) [@falsandtru](https://travis-ci.community/u/falsandtru)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/the-build-has-been-terminated-error-is-increasing-on-osx-in-recent-days/7736/4 "2020-03-23T16:09:20Z")

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I’d forgotten to write that the error appears only on OSX.

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**Author:** ![falsandtru](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/travis-ci.community/falsandtru/32/3844_2.png) [@falsandtru](https://travis-ci.community/u/falsandtru)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/the-build-has-been-terminated-error-is-increasing-on-osx-in-recent-days/7736/5 "2020-03-23T16:37:06Z")

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1st try

```auto
travis_fold:start:install.npm
e[0Ktravis_time:start:0176ac90
e[0K$ npm install 

No output has been received in the last 10m0s, this potentially indicates a stalled build or something wrong with the build itself.
Check the details on how to adjust your build configuration on: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/common-build-problems/#Build-times-out-because-no-output-was-received

The build has been terminated

```

2nd try

```auto
travis_fold:start:cache.1
e[0KSetting up build cache

$ export CASHER_DIR=${TRAVIS_HOME}/.casher

travis_time:start:06d6131f
e[0K$ Installing caching utilities

travis_time:end:06d6131f:start=1584980897553054000,finish=1584980898547434000,duration=994380000,event=setup_casher
e[0Ktravis_time:start:0e8b9c65
e[0Ktravis_time:end:0e8b9c65:start=1584980898563322000,finish=1584980898572508000,duration=9186000,event=setup_casher
e[0Ktravis_time:start:1891a682
e[0Kattempting to download cache archivee[0m

e[32;1mfetching master/cache--osx-e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855--node-12.tgze[0m

e[32;1mfound cachee[0m

travis_time:end:1891a682:start=1584980898582902000,finish=1584980902924958000,duration=4342056000,event=setup_casher
e[0Ktravis_fold:end:cache.1
e[0K

travis_fold:start:cache.npm
e[0K

travis_time:start:0cba6e02
e[0Ktravis_time:end:0cba6e02:start=1584980903282181000,finish=1584980903292201000,duration=10020000,event=setup_cache
e[0Ktravis_time:start:0b1de244
e[0Kadding /Users/travis/build/falsandtru/typed-dom/node_modules to cachee[0m

creating directory /Users/travis/build/falsandtru/typed-dom/node_modulese[0m

No output has been received in the last 10m0s, this potentially indicates a stalled build or something wrong with the build itself.
Check the details on how to adjust your build configuration on: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/common-build-problems/#Build-times-out-because-no-output-was-received

The build has been terminated

```

[https://travis-ci.org/github/falsandtru/typed-dom/jobs/665943575](https://travis-ci.org/github/falsandtru/typed-dom/jobs/665943575) (recovered by restart)

```auto
e[0Ktravis_fold:start:install_chrome
e[0K$ export CHROME_SOURCE_URL=https://dl.google.com/chrome/mac/stable/GGRO/googlechrome.dmg

e[33;1mInstalling Google Chrome stablee[0m

travis_time:start:0254b6c7
e[0K$ wget --no-verbose -O /tmp/$(basename $CHROME_SOURCE_URL) $CHROME_SOURCE_URL

2020-03-23 18:12:49 URL:https://dl.google.com/chrome/mac/stable/GGRO/googlechrome.dmg [87389332/87389332] -> "/tmp/googlechrome.dmg" [1]

travis_time:end:0254b6c7:start=1584987162991985000,finish=1584987169720688000,duration=6728703000,event=prepare
e[0KChecksumming Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0)窶ｦ

     Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0): verified CRC32 $8252663E

Checksumming Apple (Apple_partition_map : 1)窶ｦ

     Apple (Apple_partition_map : 1): verified CRC32 $25DF87DB

Checksumming DiscRecording 9.0.3d5 (Apple_HFS : 2)窶ｦ

DiscRecording 9.0.3d5 (Apple_HFS : 2: verified CRC32 $8ECB1DBA

verified CRC32 $B8D8C713

/dev/disk1 Apple_partition_scheme         	

/dev/disk1s1 Apple_partition_map            	

/dev/disk1s2 Apple_HFS /Users/travis/build/chrome

No output has been received in the last 10m0s, this potentially indicates a stalled build or something wrong with the build itself.
Check the details on how to adjust your build configuration on: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/common-build-problems/#Build-times-out-because-no-output-was-received

The build has been terminated

```

[https://travis-ci.org/github/falsandtru/securemark/jobs/665988464](https://travis-ci.org/github/falsandtru/securemark/jobs/665988464) (recovered)

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**Author:** ![amCap1712](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/travis-ci.community/amcap1712/32/4627_2.png) [@amCap1712](https://travis-ci.community/u/amCap1712)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/the-build-has-been-terminated-error-is-increasing-on-osx-in-recent-days/7736/6 "2020-05-23T13:27:53Z")

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@BanzaiMan @falsandtru I have the same observation. The issue occurs intermittently but almost at least once in every build (sometimes even twice) in a build matrix. For example, see the job at [https://travis-ci.com/github/amCap1712/pljava/jobs/339196487](https://travis-ci.com/github/amCap1712/pljava/jobs/339196487) . When I run such builds again, they start working and pass. Therefore, I do not believe there is anything wrong with the configuration or the project.
