In DMD, the "respawn.sh" test fails quite consistently on armhf, and has sometimes failed on mips64el and x86_64 as well. Here's a copy of test-suite.log from a recent failure on armhf:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- =================================== GNU dmd 0.2: ./test-suite.log =================================== # TOTAL: 3 # PASS: 2 # SKIP: 0 # XFAIL: 0 # FAIL: 1 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 .. contents:: :depth: 2 FAIL: tests/respawn =================== + dmd --version dmd (GNU dmd) 0.2 Copyright (C) 2013 Ludovic Court?s Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Wolfgang J?hrling License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. + deco --version deco (GNU dmd) 0.2 Copyright (C) 2013 Ludovic Court?s Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Wolfgang J?hrling License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. + socket=t-socket-759 + conf=t-conf-759 + log=t-log-759 + stamp=t-stamp-759 + service1_pid=t-service1-pid-759 + service2_pid=t-service2-pid-759 + pid=t-pid-759 + deco='deco -s t-socket-759' + trap 'cat t-log-759 || true ; rm -f t-socket-759 t-conf-759 t-stamp-759 t-log-759 t-pid-759 t-service1-pid-759 t-service2-pid-759 ; test -f t-pid-759 && kill `cat t-pid-759` || true ; test -f t-service1-pid-759 && kill `cat t-service1-pid-759` || true ; test -f t-service2-pid-759 && kill `cat t-service2-pid-759` || true ; rm -f t-service1-pid-759 t-service2-pid-759' EXIT + cat + rm -f t-pid-759 + wait_for_file t-pid-759 + i=0 + test -f t-pid-759 + test 0 -lt 20 + sleep 0.3 + dmd -I -s t-socket-759 -c t-conf-759 -l t-log-759 --pid=t-pid-759 ++ expr 0 + 1 + i=1 + test -f t-pid-759 + test 1 -lt 20 + sleep 0.3 ++ expr 1 + 1 + i=2 + test -f t-pid-759 + test -f t-pid-759 ++ cat t-pid-759 + dmd_pid=774 + kill -0 774 + test -S t-socket-759 + deco -s t-socket-759 status dmd Started: (test1 test2 dmd) Stopped: () + grep started + deco -s t-socket-759 status test1 It is started. + grep started + deco -s t-socket-759 status test2 It is started. + test -f t-service1-pid-759 + cat t-log-759 2015-12-09 16:15:18 Service dmd has been started. 2015-12-09 16:15:18 Service test1 has been started. 2015-12-09 16:15:18 Service test2 has been started. 2015-12-09 16:15:19 Started: (test1 test2 dmd) 2015-12-09 16:15:19 Stopped: () 2015-12-09 16:15:19 Status of test1: 2015-12-09 16:15:19 It is started. 2015-12-09 16:15:19 Running value is 786. 2015-12-09 16:15:19 It is enabled. 2015-12-09 16:15:19 Provides (test1). 2015-12-09 16:15:19 Requires (). 2015-12-09 16:15:19 Conflicts with (). 2015-12-09 16:15:19 Will be respawned. 2015-12-09 16:15:20 Status of test2: 2015-12-09 16:15:20 It is started. 2015-12-09 16:15:20 Running value is 787. 2015-12-09 16:15:20 It is enabled. 2015-12-09 16:15:20 Provides (test2). 2015-12-09 16:15:20 Requires (). 2015-12-09 16:15:20 Conflicts with (). 2015-12-09 16:15:20 Will be respawned. + rm -f t-socket-759 t-conf-759 t-stamp-759 t-log-759 t-pid-759 t-service1-pid-759 t-service2-pid-759 + test -f t-pid-759 + true + test -f t-service1-pid-759 + true + test -f t-service2-pid-759 + true + rm -f t-service1-pid-759 t-service2-pid-759 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Mark