| Title | Possible hang in steptest |
| Status | open |
| Priority | optional |
| Assigned user | Gareth Rees |
| Organization | Ravenbrook |
| Description | See the Travis build on branch 2015-09-04/stack [1], where the last lines of output are: Running steptest No output has been received in the last 10 minutes, this potentially indicates a stalled build or something wrong with the build itself. The build has been terminated There are two problems here: 1. There might be an infinite loop in steptest or worse, in mps_arena_step. 2. We don't get to see the test output (the output went to a temporary file). |
| Analysis | We might be able to solve (2) by adding a signal handler to testrun.sh (this would rely on Travis trying to kill us with SIGTERM before using SIGKILL). Or testrun.sh could impose its own time limit. |
| How found | automated_test |
| Evidence | [1] https://travis-ci.org/Ravenbrook/mps-temporary/jobs/79183942 |
| Created by | Gareth Rees |
| Created on | 2015-09-08 12:42:39 |
| Last modified by | Gareth Rees |
| Last modified on | 2016-09-13 10:36:32 |
| History | 2015-09-08 GDR Created. |