Thanks for your response, Martin.

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Zach: Temporarily committing changes to test specific buildbot issues
> is fine

I suppose it would also be beneficial to get some output from the other bots which are *not* failing, to have something to compare with.  In that case, here's a (very) temporary patch we can try for a round of builds.

> asking the slave operator for direct access to the machine 
> may also work.

Trent, what's your policy on letting non-committers play around in your machines? :)  Alternately, do you know of anything about that machine that could be causing the failures?