bug#65324: "make check" hangs on NetBSD 9.3

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

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Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:

Hi Bruno,

>> The last passed test, so the problem happens in
>> tramp-test41-special-characters. Could you pls apply the appended patch,
>> and rerun? And I'll need the new tramp-tests.log file.
>
> Attached. It contains no new information. Should I try to stop some
> processes and get stack traces using gdb? Or is this useless?

gdb won't help. I've extended the patch (appended), so it writes traces
to your tmp directory in parallel. Could you pls try?

There should be a file /tmp/*debug tramp mock netbsd93.bruno.haible.de*
which might tell us the story.

>> Btw, we skip the test already for macOS. Perhaps there is a similar
>> problem with NetBSD?
>
> macOS is usually closer to FreeBSD than to NetBSD.
> But how would I check that it's the same problem on NetBSD as on macOS?

No idea. I cannot test macOS or NetBSD myself.

> Bruno

Best regards, Michael.


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diff --git a/test/lisp/net/tramp-tests.el b/test/lisp/net/tramp-tests.el
index 50687dfe993..de343596969 100644
--- a/test/lisp/net/tramp-tests.el
+++ b/test/lisp/net/tramp-tests.el
@@ -7413,6 +7413,8 @@ tramp-test41-special-characters
   (skip-unless (not (tramp--test-rclone-p)))
   (skip-unless (not (or (eq system-type 'darwin) (tramp--test-macos-p))))

+  (tramp--test-instrument-test-case 10
+  (setq tramp-debug-to-file t)
   ;; Newlines, slashes and backslashes in file names are not
   ;; supported.  So we don't test.  And we don't test the tab
   ;; character on Windows or Cygwin, because the backslash is
@@ -7468,7 +7470,7 @@ tramp-test41-special-characters
     ;; Simplify test in order to speed up.
     (apply #'tramp--test-check-files
 	   (if (tramp--test-expensive-test-p)
-	       files (list (string-join files ""))))))
+	       files (list (string-join files "")))))))

 (tramp--test-deftest-with-stat tramp-test41-special-characters)