Periodically, I have seen tests fail because of out of order queue runner behavior:
checking the queue for builds > 0...
loading build 1 (tests:basic:empty_dir)
aborting unsupported build step '...-empty-dir.drv' (type 'x86_64-linux')
marking build 1 as failed
adding new machine ‘localhost’
This patch should prevent the dispatcher from running before any machines are
made available.