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A step‑by‑step guide to recognize, diagnose, and resolve Build Timeout errors in Netlify CD pipelines, with checks, fixes, and escalation criteria.
Goal We want a pipeline job to terminate all running processes, including those started by a step, when the job exceeds its timeout or is canceled via the REST API. Constraints & Uncertainty The agent wrapper only tracks the main process started for a job. Child processes launched by a task (e.g., a long‑running background service) are not monitored, so
Job Timeout Enforcement In the .travis.yml specification, the timeout configuration allows for the definition of a maximum duration for a build job. When a job exceeds this specified limit, the system terminates the process and marks the build status as failed. There is an inherent interaction between these user-defined values and the hard limits imposed by
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