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Jeroen Vannevel

20 Oct, 2015 10:20 AM

Half of my builds timeout with the above message as the very last one. One example of this https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Vannevelj/vsdiagnostics/build/1.8.299

Another very common issue is

The process cannot access the file 'C:\projects\vsdiagnostics\VSDiagnostics\packages\Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.1.0.0\Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.1.0.0.nupkg' because it is being used by another process.

For example here: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Vannevelj/vsdiagnostics/build/1.8.295

These two problems occur so often, I would wager that 80% of my builds fail when in reality less than 1% are actually supposed to fail. That other 79% are these two errors.

Is there anything to do about this?

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