From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10208 invoked by alias); 10 Sep 2009 23:51:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 10200 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Sep 2009 23:51:07 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ew0-f226.google.com (HELO mail-ew0-f226.google.com) (209.85.219.226) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:51:04 +0000 Received: by ewy26 with SMTP id 26so612887ewy.29 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:51:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.211.154.17 with SMTP id g17mr1624787ebo.32.1252626661782; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:51:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.99? (cpc2-cmbg8-0-0-cust61.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [82.6.108.62]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm879744eyx.20.2009.09.10.16.50.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:51:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AA9942A.1090402@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:51:00 -0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Klose CC: John David Anglin , Martin Jambor , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: hppa testsuite stalls? References: <20090909010753.53E254E7B@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> <4AA98701.6010304@ubuntu.com> In-Reply-To: <4AA98701.6010304@ubuntu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2009-09/txt/msg00199.txt.bz2 Matthias Klose wrote: > On 09.09.2009 03:07, John David Anglin wrote: >> > >> the testsuite on the hppa machine (gcc61 on the compile farm) has >>> always hanged for me from time to time. However, lately (at least >>> since I returned from vacation last Monday) it hangs every time. >> >> This is likely a kernel problem. There are long standing problems >> with testsuite timeouts and occassional hangs on linux. The frequency >> of these is kernel and hardware dependent. >> >>> Is this a know problem? How should I investigate such problems? It >>> makes proper testing on that platform rather impossible for me. >> >> It's very difficult as there's little relationship between cause >> and symptoms. If you come across a reproducible testcase, please >> report it to the parisc-linux list. > > if this is a debian parisc-linux system you might want to install > expect-tcl8.3 (which removes the expect package) to avoid the timeouts. > at least that works around the timeouts on the debian buildds. BTW, there was a patch just checked in to make sure ACATS tests time out properly instead of stalling: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-09/msg00740.html Maybe it can help? cheers, DaveK