[issue19386] selectors test_interrupted_retry is flaky

2013-11-21 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Looking at the current buildbot history I don't see these errors any more. I'm not sure how frequent they were, but I think I'll mark this as resolved and we can reopen it if we see it again. -- resolution: - invalid stage: needs patch -

[issue19386] selectors test_interrupted_retry is flaky

2013-10-29 Thread Charles-François Natali
Charles-François Natali added the comment: Here's another failure: == FAIL: test_interpreter_shutdown (test.test_concurrent_futures.ProcessPoolShutdownTest) --

[issue19386] selectors test_interrupted_retry is flaky

2013-10-29 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Yes, it is a linux vserver VM. I would think we would want tests to not fail in VMs, though, in this day and age. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19386

[issue19386] selectors test_interrupted_retry is flaky

2013-10-29 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Also, unless people haven't been reporting other errors, these buildbots have been stable up until recently, with the exception of the multiprocessing hangs that plague all the buildbots as far as I know. (My impression could be mistaken, though.)

[issue19386] selectors test_interrupted_retry is flaky

2013-10-29 Thread Charles-François Natali
Charles-François Natali added the comment: Also, unless people haven't been reporting other errors, these buildbots have been stable up until recently Well, the fact that several tests - which were working just fine - started failing randomly recently (like test_concurrent_futures,

[issue19386] selectors test_interrupted_retry is flaky

2013-10-29 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: What could cause a VM clock problem on a machine that hasn't been modified, but the VMs have been rebooted recently (ie: it isn't stale state inside the VM itself). Anything you can suggest I look at? -- ___

[issue19386] selectors test_interrupted_retry is flaky

2013-10-29 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I'm going to reboot the host just to see if that makes any difference. It's been up for 105 days. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19386

[issue19386] selectors test_interrupted_retry is flaky

2013-10-25 Thread Christian Heimes
New submission from Christian Heimes: The test seems to be unstable on some build bots: http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/x86%20Gentoo%20Non-Debug%203.x/builds/5271/steps/test/logs/stdio == FAIL: test_interrupted_retry

[issue19386] selectors test_interrupted_retry is flaky

2013-10-25 Thread Charles-François Natali
Charles-François Natali added the comment: This failure doesn't make sense: whether SIGALRM is delivered or not, epoll() should time out after 2 seconds, not 105s. What's more, here's another test_subprocess failure: ==

[issue19386] selectors test_interrupted_retry is flaky

2013-10-25 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Flaky VM clock perhaps? -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19386 ___ ___

[issue19386] selectors test_interrupted_retry is flaky

2013-10-25 Thread Charles-François Natali
Charles-François Natali added the comment: Flaky VM clock perhaps? Yeah, thought about that, but here we see *exactly* the same value for two time intervals (using time.monotonic()), computed over different test suite runs. I'd expected something more erratic... --

[issue19386] selectors test_interrupted_retry is flaky

2013-10-25 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: The only change on the buildbot for some months now was increasing the size of the in-memory /tmp filesystem, which I did yesterday. That also involved a reboot, though, and it is conceivable that there were software changes made since the last reboot and

[issue19386] selectors test_interrupted_retry is flaky

2013-10-25 Thread Charles-François Natali
Charles-François Natali added the comment: Could you try to run the test in a loop under strace (strace -ttTf) ? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19386 ___