From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: non-deterministic test failure Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:24:38 +0100 Message-ID: <873a2md8e1.fsf@newton.homeunix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262567331 10349 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2010 01:08:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 01:08:51 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 04 02:08:44 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NRbR6-00007a-1M for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:08:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54977 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NRbR6-0007xm-Be for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:08:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NRbQz-0007xP-Rf for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:08:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NRbQv-0007wP-Fa for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:08:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49166 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NRbQv-0007wM-B1 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:08:33 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:45630) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NRbQu-0007d1-UE for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:08:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NRbQr-0008Vf-He for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:08:29 +0100 Original-Received: from 140.red-83-42-209.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.42.209.140]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:08:29 +0100 Original-Received: from jao by 140.red-83-42-209.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:08:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 140.red-83-42-209.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) X-Attribution: jao X-URL: Cancel-Lock: sha1:DWCR/Yb6do78ffDoKbma/F+74G0= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:9820 Archived-At: hi, during the last month or so, the threads test in 1.9.x has been failing for me (debian unstable, x86 box) intermittently, with the message: FAIL: threads.test: lock-mutex: timed locking succeeds if mutex unlocked within timeout it happens every now and then, but i haven't been able to pin down the cause (i'm not familiar with the code and haven't looked at it much), or to reproduce the error consistently (although with the current it seems to happen almost always). am i the only one? cheers, jao -- Lisp has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. —Edsger Dijkstra