Re: [PATCHES] gnu: nss: Update to 3.30.2 [fixes CVE-2017-5461].

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

Hi Marius,

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
>
>> Unfortunately, even with "nss-increase-test-timeout.patch" and
>> "nss-disable-long-b64-tests.patch", the build still failed on armhf:
>>
>>   https://hydra.gnu.org/build/2010324
>
> This looks very similar to the random connect timeouts that prompted the
> "increase-test-timeouts" patch, except this time it took 50s instead of
> ~20s:

Thanks very much for looking into it.

50 seconds to make a local connection?  Bah, that's ridiculous!  I'm
beginning to wonder if the kernels running on these build slaves have
buggy schedulers resulting in starvation, or perhaps we're overloading
them too much.

> I am 99% sure the attached patch will do the job. What do you think?

If it sometimes takes 50 seconds to make a local connection, then I
suspect it could occasionally take much longer than a minute.

For now, I've asked Hydra to try building it again, as is.

Maybe in 'core-updates' we should consider increasing the timeout to
something on the order of 5 or 10 minutes.

What do you think?

      Mark