hppa testsuite stalls?

[Matthias Klose]

On 09.09.2009 03:07, John David Anglin wrote:
>

> the testsuite on the hppa machine (gcc61 on the compile farm) has
>> always hanged for me from time to time.  However, lately (at least
>> since I returned from vacation last Monday) it hangs every time.
>
> This is likely a kernel problem.  There are long standing problems
> with testsuite timeouts and occassional hangs on linux.  The frequency
> of these is kernel and hardware dependent.
>
>> Is this a know problem?  How should I investigate such problems?  It
>> makes proper testing on that platform rather impossible for me.
>
> It's very difficult as there's little relationship between cause
> and symptoms.  If you come across a reproducible testcase, please
> report it to the parisc-linux list.

if this is a debian parisc-linux system you might want to install expect-tcl8.3 
(which removes the expect package) to avoid the timeouts. at least that works 
around the timeouts on the debian buildds.

   Matthias