Well, I'm not a lot wiser, but here's the current scoop. I saw a hang on one particular test (LSB.os T.execlp) I got email from others indicating they'd seen hangs on nearby tests, all on the exec family, all in the LSB.os area. One of those reports was on an Itanium like I'm trying, others were on ia32.
To make matters more confusing, acting on the theory that these could be fixed kernel bugs, I tried to rerun just the affected set of tests using a 2.4.18 "stock" kernel. No problem. I then reran the same subset on the distro's patched 2.4.9 kernel. No problem. If I was to draw any conclusion from this, it's that there's some sort of an interaction problem... after the system's been running a long time and been beaten on by the test suite for many many hours, one or more of these areas might get stuck. On a freshly rebooted kernel, it's not happening ?!?!? Sigh. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
