# All dashboards broken
**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/all-dashboards-broken/1669
**Category:** Dashboards
**Created:** [August 30, 2019, 5:56am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/all-dashboards-broken/1669 "2019-08-30T05:56:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2019, 5:56am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/all-dashboards-broken/1669/1 "2019-08-30T05:56:06Z")
Somehow, it looks like all dashboards are broken, but only with MRs.
See here :
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge\_requests/5919](https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/5919)
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge\_requests/5682](https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/5682)
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge\_requests/5918](https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/5918)
While master build fine :
[https://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=VTK](https://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=VTK)
What is going on ? @ben.boeckel
---
### Author:  [@utkarshayachit](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/utkarshayachit)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2019, 12:26pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/all-dashboards-broken/1669/2 "2019-08-30T12:26:16Z")
> [@mwestphal](#):
>
> What is going on ?
`vtk/vtk!5682` launched tests off a really old branch. That caused build failures since some cmake flags or build state needed a clean build to work correctly. Since we only do incremental builds on MRs (unless `Do: test --clean` is explicitly requested), all subsequent MR tests failed due to similar errors until a `master` build got scheduled and cleaned the build dirs.
**Moral of the story:** please don’t test branches that are _too_ old, and if unavoidable, use `Do: test --merged`.
---
### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2019, 12:33pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/all-dashboards-broken/1669/3 "2019-08-30T12:33:03Z")
indeed ! I should have checked that before running the tests on this MR. thanks.
---
### Author:  [@allison.vacanti](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/allison.vacanti)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/all-dashboards-broken/1669/4 "2019-08-30T17:11:50Z")
Yikes – “really old” in this case was master from just a week ago! 😉
I’ll try to keep closer to current master.
---
### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2019, 6:23am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/all-dashboards-broken/1669/5 "2019-09-02T06:23:55Z")
@allison.vacanti : No no, it was me. I ran a 3000 commit behind branch from an external contributor because I forget to check that. My bad.