https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85871
--- Comment #3 from Martin Liška <marxin at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Christophe Lyon from comment #2) > Yes I had spotted this part of gcov.exp, but saw nothing in the logs. > > As I put in the title, it happens randomly, and this is automated testing. > > And it seems there is no way increasing verbosity will print helpful debug > info in this area. > > I hoped someone more knowledgeable would have an idea of what could cause > such an error :) > > > It could be that the process was killed for some reason, but there is no > such clue in the logs. Maybe HJ Lu has some info since I noticed similar > errors in his reports. Could you reproduce that with repeatedly executed: $ make check RUNTESTFLAGS="gcov.exp=gcov-6.C" or $ make check -k -j8 RUNTESTFLAGS="gcov.exp" If yes, then debugging should be much easier. What exactly target do you test. Is it i686?