On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:56:40PM +0000, Sharo, Randall A CIV 
SPAWARSYSCEN-ATLANTIC, 55200 wrote:
> I see this same error, Stephen -- the test gets caught in an
> infinite while loop where the atomic reader waits for an atomic
> writer that is not running (maybe terminated or failed to spawn).  I
> see the error when building on Ubuntu 14.10 and CentOS 7.  I do not
> see it on CentOS 6.6.

Can you give a backtrace?

> I also see the OVS atomic source code cause an internal compiler
> error when using clang as delivered in the Ubuntu 14.10 distro.
> (Compiler says it is unable to determine whether atomic boolean base
> type should be "bool" or "u8").  Some forum threads have claimed
> that recent Ubuntu clang crashes can be a result of a bug where
> clang builds improperly under GCC 4.8.  I tried rebuilding clang
> using GCC 4.7 on Ubuntu but it didn't eliminate the internal error
> when the resultant clang binary compiled OVS atomic code.

By "internal compiler error", do you mean that compiling OVS triggers
a bug in Clang?  I haven't seen this--what version of Clang are you
using?  But you can work around the problem by compiling with GCC
instead.
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