[RyJones]

This misfeature causes me more heartburn than the others. I have to manually touch all of my build slaves once a month to keep them compiling.

Furthermore, you can't run unit tests without an interactive session, so the build slaves would have to auto-login on boot; we chose instead to not run the unit tests automatically on checkins.

[nigelsampson]

Agreed it's still frustrating, but it's no where near the clusterfuck the OP implies.