Re: [Libreoffice] subsequenttest hang ...

2011-09-28 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 09/28/2011 02:01 AM, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: (1) it occurred to me that this French expression may not translate well. "a surveiller comme du lait sur le feux" means to keep close and attentive watch... milk being notorious -- when it start boiling -- for quickly overflowing the pot. That m

Re: [Libreoffice] subsequenttest hang ...

2011-09-27 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Michael Stahl wrote: > On 26.09.2011 20:46, Stephan Bergmann wrote: >> >> Tinderboxes need to handle non-terminating builds, anyway (think a >> non-terminating, say, idlc), so no need to address non-terminating tests >> specifically for them. > > or, for a more rea

Re: [Libreoffice] subsequenttest hang ...

2011-09-27 Thread Michael Stahl
On 26.09.2011 20:46, Stephan Bergmann wrote: > > Tinderboxes need to handle non-terminating builds, anyway (think a > non-terminating, say, idlc), so no need to address non-terminating tests > specifically for them. or, for a more realistic example, a non-terminating autodoc :-P __

Re: [Libreoffice] subsequenttest hang ...

2011-09-27 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:53:35 -0500 Norbert Thiebaud wrote: > here the tail of the make check log. > LOG> Log started 26.08.2011 - 11:34:33 > checking: [forms.OEditModel::com::sun::star::beans::XMultiPropertySet] > is iface: [com.sun.star.beans.XMultiPropertySet] testcode: > [ifc.beans._XMultiProp

Re: [Libreoffice] subsequenttest hang ...

2011-09-26 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Stephan Bergmann wrote: > On 09/26/2011 11:23 PM, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: >> >> So... my Linux tinderbox hanged again in make check... after only 3 >> green iterations... I have not noticed for 7 hours, nor anyone else >> apparently... > > Would that be >

Re: [Libreoffice] subsequenttest hang ...

2011-09-26 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 09/26/2011 11:23 PM, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: So... my Linux tinderbox hanged again in make check... after only 3 green iterations... I have not noticed for 7 hours, nor anyone else apparently... Would that be

Re: [Libreoffice] subsequenttest hang ...

2011-09-26 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
So... my Linux tinderbox hanged again in make check... after only 3 green iterations... I have not noticed for 7 hours, nor anyone else apparently... so clearly running make check is not ready for prime time. I'm turning that off on my box for now. Norbert

Re: [Libreoffice] subsequenttest hang ...

2011-09-26 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 14:16 -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: > it is not new. the tendency of smoketest to hang was the reason it was > not run in tinderboxes. Good - so we overcame one problem that can cause this. > For instance. a build (the make itselft, excluding make check) with > ver

Re: [Libreoffice] subsequenttest hang ...

2011-09-26 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Stephan Bergmann wrote: > On 09/26/2011 08:24 PM, Michael Meeks wrote: >> >>        Looks like an improvement to me, thanks for that. I wonder why we >> only >> see this now, surely smoketests have died in mid-flow before ? > > Not sure.  Maybe it was indeed always

Re: [Libreoffice] subsequenttest hang ...

2011-09-26 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 09/26/2011 08:24 PM, Michael Meeks wrote: On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 17:33 +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote: A timed wait is no solution here. (Timeouts in this kind of code pose at least two problems. For one, they prevent a human from coming back to a hung "make check" after a while, only to fin

Re: [Libreoffice] subsequenttest hang ...

2011-09-26 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 17:33 +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote: > A timed wait is no solution here. (Timeouts in this kind of code pose > at least two problems. For one, they prevent a human from coming back > to a hung "make check" after a while, only to find out they no longer > get a clue where

Re: [Libreoffice] subsequenttest hang ...

2011-09-26 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 09/24/2011 12:48 PM, Michael Meeks wrote: I'm poking at an endless hang in the smoketest: #12 0xb7d24aec in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #3 0xb7f1b6c0 in osl_waitCondition () from /data/opt/libreoffice/core/solver/unxlngi6.pro/lib/libuno_sal.so.3 #4 0xb72db42a in o

[Libreoffice] subsequenttest hang ...

2011-09-24 Thread Michael Meeks
I'm poking at an endless hang in the smoketest: #12 0xb7d24aec in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #3 0xb7f1b6c0 in osl_waitCondition () from /data/opt/libreoffice/core/solver/unxlngi6.pro/lib/libuno_sal.so.3 #4 0xb72db42a in osl::Condition::wait (this=0xbfffb8c4, pTimeout