Tests looping indefinitely has been worked on, and hasn't been seen in a while now. Closing this as "Fixed released"
** Changed in: auto-package-testing Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Canonical's Ubuntu QA, which is subscribed to Auto Package Testing. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2058918 Title: Improve heuristics in detecting packages causing looping Status in Auto Package Testing: Fix Released Bug description: We currently don't have a good way of detecting tests that have been looping forever. We need to improve this and at least add logging when we've detected a perma-looping test, and ideally a perma-looping test would be caught and killed, and marked appropriately as a failure. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/auto-package-testing/+bug/2058918/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ubuntu-qa Post to : canonical-ubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp