[qmtest] test failures on Red Hat 9

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:54:41AM -0500, Danny R. Faught wrote:
> I don't get a clean "make check" on Red Hat 9 with CVS sources I updated 
>  this morning.  I'm running python 2.2.2.  Are the tests expected to 
> pass in this configuration?
[...]
> The result from check-threads is worse:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> cd qm && PYTHONPATH=. /usr/bin/python2 -O ./setup.py -q build
> warning: build_py: package init file './test/classes/__init__.py' not 
> found (or not a regular file)
> warning: build_py: package init file './test/classes/__init__.py' not 
> found (or not a regular file)
> rm -f tests/QMTest/thread_target
> qm/test/qmtest -D tests create-target -a threads=4 \
> 	-T tests/QMTest/thread_target \
> 	thread thread_target.ThreadTarget
> qm/test/qmtest -D tests run -T tests/QMTest/thread_target \
> 	 \
> 	-c qmtest_path=qm/test/qmtest \
> 	-c qmtest_target=tests/QMTest/thread_target
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> It hangs at this point.  I have to send a SIGKILL to all QMTest python 
> programs to recover.  Here's a snapshot from ps:

Some people on the SCons (a python make replacement) list saw similar
behaviour in SCons on Redhat 9, and it turned out to be a buggy glibc
that RH shipped.  You might try applying the glibc update at

  https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2003-136.html

and see if that helps?

-- Nathaniel

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