[darcs-users] buildbot once again

Matthias Kilian kili at outback.escape.de
Tue Aug 4 18:46:00 UTC 2009


On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 07:26:23PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote:
> > Just a hint if you want to work on debugging this... It seems
> > that this always fails on the same test, and that it fails with
> > a SEGV somewhere (judging from the exit code). It may be
> > beneficial to try reproducing the problem out of buildbot, and
> > if that works, try skipping some tests, grabbing a core or
> > something to that effect. This may be a bug in darcs, a bug in
> > the testsuite, a bug in GHC, a bug in openbsd libs or a bug
> > somewhere completely else. :\ Well, good hunting, if you want
> > to take the challenge.
> 
> In fact you have made that advice to me already in the past and I
> followed it. I repeated the testing again and the problem is that (like
> in the past):
> 
> ghc --make Setup
> ./Setup test
> 
> runs fine on my OpenBSD bot. Shall I test several times? Or do you have
> any other idea what to test?

Some more test runs may help, because there might be some multithreading
issues with darcs (or the GHC runtime) on OpenBSD. Another good
test would be to not run it interactively from a shell, but, for
example, via at(1) to simulate the tty-less situation you usually
have in a buildbot.

Ciao,
	Kili

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