On 09.09.2009 03:07, John David Anglin wrote:
the testsuite on the hppa machine (gcc61 on the compile farm) has
always hanged for me from time to time. However, lately (at least
since I returned from vacation last Monday) it hangs every time.
This is likely a kernel problem. There are long standing problems
with testsuite timeouts and occassional hangs on linux. The frequency
of these is kernel and hardware dependent.
Is this a know problem? How should I investigate such problems? It
makes proper testing on that platform rather impossible for me.
It's very difficult as there's little relationship between cause
and symptoms. If you come across a reproducible testcase, please
report it to the parisc-linux list.
if this is a debian parisc-linux system you might want to install expect-tcl8.3
(which removes the expect package) to avoid the timeouts. at least that works
around the timeouts on the debian buildds.
Matthias
