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

Re: [Libreoffice] subsequenttest hang ...

2011-09-27 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 ...

2011-09-27 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Stephan Bergmann sberg...@redhat.com 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 ...

2011-09-27 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:53:35 -0500 Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com 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:

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 Norbert Thiebaud
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Michael Stahl m...@openoffice.org 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

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 it

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 find

Re: [Libreoffice] subsequenttest hang ...

2011-09-26 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Stephan Bergmann sberg...@redhat.com 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

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 very

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

[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,