From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: non-deterministic test failure Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:38:32 +0000 Message-ID: <87eilo9ztz.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <873a2md8e1.fsf@newton.homeunix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263764419 7089 80.91.229.12 (17 Jan 2010 21:40:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:40:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 17 22:39:52 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 1NWcqa-0002F1-Tj for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:39:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37881 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NWcqb-0007s7-NS for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:39:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWcqU-0007s1-SE for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:39:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWcqP-0007qH-2u for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:39:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34256 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NWcqP-0007qB-0L for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:39:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:46053) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NWcqI-00074x-WE; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:39:31 -0500 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-183-207-218.range86-183.btcentralplus.com [86.183.207.218]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACFB11F6712; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:38:53 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from arudy (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 206903801F; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:38:33 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <873a2md8e1.fsf@newton.homeunix.net> (Jose A. Ortega Ruiz's message of "Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:24:38 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:9888 Archived-At: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" writes: > 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? No, I think I've seen this too. Intermittently though, as you say. Neil