Re: make check (8.1) hangs forever (original) (raw)

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From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: make check (8.1) hangs forever
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:33:37 +0100

Pádraig Brady wrote:

Alan Curry wrote: > The last message I get from "make check" is: > PASS: misc/help-version > > Then it sleeps for a long time. During this time, the inotify-race test is > running. There's a "timeout 10s gdb ..." process that's been running for a > lot longer than 10 seconds. > > After ^C stops the make, the timeout, gdb, and a couple of tail processes are > lingering and have to be killed manually. > > So far I've looked at it with strace, which revealed that timeout has sent a > SIGTERM to gdb, but gdb has SIGTERM blocked so nothing happens.

thanks for investigating. Perhaps we need to use timeout -sKILL ...

Sounds good to me.