Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Judging by the faulthandler traceback in the PowerLinux build:
Timeout (1:00:00)! Thread 0x0000008074e46670 (most recent call first): File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.4.edelsohn-powerlinux-ppc64/build/Lib/test/test_cmd_line_script.py", line 192 in interactive_python File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.4.edelsohn-powerlinux-ppc64/build/Lib/contextlib.py", line 59 in __enter__ File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.4.edelsohn-powerlinux-ppc64/build/Lib/test/test_cmd_line_script.py", line 205 in check_repl_stderr_flush File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.4.edelsohn-powerlinux-ppc64/build/Lib/test/test_cmd_line_script.py", line 220 in test_repl_stderr_flush [snip] ... the test is actually stuck trying to read the interactive prompt from stderr: # Drain stderr until prompt while True: data = stderr.read(4) if data == b">>> ": break stderr.readline() <-- HERE ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21425> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com