Re: Tcl test hangs 5.0_BETA

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost>]

George Harvey wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:47:18 +0100
> Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost> wrote:
> 
>> George Harvey wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've built Tcl 8.4.18 from pkgsrc on a 3100/95 running 5.0_BETA. The
>>> build completes normally but when I run 'make test' the system hangs
>>> when it reaches main.test. There are no error messages but both
>>> remote sessions and the local console no longer respond to keyboard
>>> input. The system does still reply to pings though, so it's not
>>> entirely dead. Is there any way to find out where it has got stuck?
>> Break into the debugger, and start poking around.
> 
> Tried that and got an unexpected result, after some single-stepping in
> the debugger it jumped back to the shell prompt on the console and the
> Tcl test, running in an xterm window, woke up, threw an error for the
> test that had stuck, and continued on to the end of the run. The error
> message is included below. I've got a couple of hundred lines of single
> step debugger output as well if anyone wants to have a look at it.
> 
Hm, can it be that the console output driver just hangs sometimes?
That has happened before, and jumping into the debugger and back solves the 
problem.

-- Ragge



> George
> 
> # Error from 'make test TESTFLAGS="-file main.test -verbose t"'
> # on Tcl 8.4.19 after a debug session woke it up from a hung state.
> 
> ---- Tcl_Main-5.2 start
> 
> ==== Tcl_Main-5.2 Tcl_Main able to handle non-blocking stdin FAILED
> ---- Result was:
> 0 {}
> ---- Result should have been (exact matching):
> 0 SUCCESS
> ---- Test cleanup failed:
> child killed: trace trap
> ---- errorInfo(cleanup): child killed: trace trap
>     while executing
> "close $f"
>     ("uplevel" body line 2)
>     invoked from within
> "uplevel 1 $cleanup"
> ---- errorCode(cleanup): CHILDKILLED 772 SIGTRAP {trace trap}
> ==== Tcl_Main-5.2 FAILED
> 
>