Re: [bug-inetutils] Tests leave inetd running

[Mats Erik Andersson]

tisdag den  7 juni 2011 klockan 12:55 skrev Alfred M. Szmidt detta:
>    we are experiencing build timeouts that seem to be caused by a
>    leftover inetd process after running 'make check'.  The log of a
>    build run with VERBOSE=1 is available at
>    http://hydra.nixos.org/build/1109166/nixlog/1/raw
> 
>    Any idea what goes wrong here?
> 
> The test suite isn't that robust, I'll try and see if I can get
> something similar on my machine.  If it is a time out, could you try
> attacking gdb to inetd and seeing where it is at?  Have you
> experienced these time outs before?  It would be great if you could
> pin point a time point where it did work, and where it stopped
> working; that way we could check if we have done anything in
> inetutils, or if something was changed on your machine that would
> cause this behaviour (and ideally fix it!).

We had this issue for discussion earlier on. At 'hydra.nixos.org'
you use non-standard paths for at least 'netstat'. Thus the script
launches 'inetd' as requested, but fails to detect that success.

The two test printouts, close to bottom,

    netstat -na
    grep '^udp .*7777 '
    test 1 -ne 0

are evidence of this. From my point of view the script works for
all sensible UNIX systems, except at NixOS. The discussion we had
earlier was rather animated, but we never got the feedback we need
in order to fix the issue at hand.

Best regards,
  Mats E A