Re: popen test hangs

["Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@gentoo.org>]

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Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
> Neil Jerram wrote:
>> "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@gentoo.org> writes:
> 
>>> it seems that the popen test hangs:
>> Grrr.  I thought we'd nailed that...
> 
>>> then it hangs for at least an hour or so. My configure invocation is:
>>>
>>> ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>>> --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share
>>> --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib64
>>> --disable-error-on-warning --disable-static --enable-posix --disable-networking
>>> --enable-regex --enable-deprecated --disable-elisp --enable-nls --disable-rpath
>>> --disable-debug-freelist --disable-debug-malloc --disable-guile-debug
>>> --with-threads --with-modules EMACS=no
>>>
>>> Any ideas what could be wrong or how to find out more?
>> Please look at the end of the check-guile.log file, to find out the
>> last test case that ran successfully, before the one that hung.
> 
> check-guile.log ends with
> 
> PASS: popen.test: open-input-pipe: no args
> PASS: popen.test: open-input-pipe: port?
> PASS: popen.test: open-input-pipe: echo hello
> PASS: popen.test: open-input-pipe: stdin==stderr
> PASS: popen.test: open-input-pipe: stdout==stderr
> PASS: popen.test: open-input-pipe: open-input-pipe process gets
> (current-input-port) as stdin
> PASS: popen.test: open-input-pipe: no duplicate
> PASS: popen.test: open-output-pipe: no args
> PASS: popen.test: open-output-pipe: port?
> PASS: popen.test: open-output-pipe: stdin==stderr
> PASS: popen.test: open-output-pipe: stdout==stderr
> 
>> Then, if you like you could confirm that it is the next test that is
>> the problem, by removing everything all the other tests from
>> popen.test, and running just popen.test with
> 
>>   ./pre-inst-guile -s test-suite/tests/popen.test

Actually doing this allowed the tests to run perfectly. That makes it look like
it is some interaction between popen.test and the sandbox/package manager. I
will investigate further.

Thanks,

Marijn

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