One other important piece of data...

While I was tinkering with this, I had a test failure on Jenkins in the
Arm build. I was watching the console log at the time and noticed that
compilation was unusually slow. Presumably, the build machine was loaded
more than usual. Then I got the following test failure. Please read
through all of what is below, BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT!

1: [ RUN      ] ThumbnailerTest.slow_vs_thumb
1: thumbnailer-service: [04:03:09.103] Critical: The schema 
com.canonical.Unity.Thumbnailer is missing
1: thumbnailer-service: [04:03:09.103] Critical: The schema 
com.canonical.Unity.Thumbnailer is missing
1: thumbnailer-service: [04:03:19.886] timeout, state = 2
1: thumbnailer-service: [04:03:19.886] killing process 11654
1: thumbnailer-service: [04:03:19.886] calling waitpid for process 11654
1: thumbnailer-service: [04:03:19.887] waitpid for process 11654 returned 11654
1: 
/tmp/buildd/thumbnailer-1.4bzr237pkg0wily144/tests/slow-vs-thumb/slow-vs-thumb_test.cpp:41:
 Failure
1: Value of: spy.wait(15000)
1:   Actual: false
1: Expected: true
1: thumbnailer-service: [04:03:23.882] Warning: QProcess: Destroyed while 
process 
("/tmp/buildd/thumbnailer-1.4bzr237pkg0wily144/tests/slow-vs-thumb/slow/vs-thumb")
 is still running.
1: [  FAILED  ] ThumbnailerTest.slow_vs_thumb (44810 ms)
1: [----------] 1 test from ThumbnailerTest (44810 ms total)

Note the time stamps: This time, waitpid returned straight away.
However, the test did not finish for another 30 seconds. Reason: The
QProcess destructor also waits for completion of the child, with a
30-second timeout. The QProcess destructor thinks the process is still
running and doesn't get notification of the child death either and,
after 30 seconds, times out.

However, THERE IS NO GSTREAMER AT ALL IN THIS TEST!

The test uses a fake vs-thumb. Instead, vs-thumb is a shell script: exec
/bin/sleep 10

We are using the fake vs-thumb just so we can test that our timeout code
works as intended.

This suggests that the SIGKILL problem is not caused by gstreamer per
se, but might be load related. Possibly, we are seeing this because all
the vs-thumb processes are putting heavy CPU load on the system,
possibly interfering with signal delivery somehow?

I've attached the build log. You can find the slow_vs_thumb test in test
/slow-vs-thumb. (It's currently disabled. Use revision 237 to get the
enabled test.)

** Attachment added: "build_log.tar"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer1.0/+bug/1466273/+attachment/4420244/+files/build_log.tar

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