Help: Error in samba4.local.talloc in autobuild

[simo]

On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 12:11 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 22:07 -0400, simo wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to push my talloc_memlimit branch to master and I got this
> > error twice in autobuild that is absolutely criptic to me:
> > 
> > [1346/1554 in 1h7m46s] samba4.local.talloc
> > UNEXPECTED(error): samba4.local.talloc.memlimit (subunit.RemotedTestCase)(none)
> > REASON: _StringException: _StringException: was started but never finished!
> > UNEXPECTED(error): samba4.local.talloc.memlimit(none) (subunit.RemotedTestCase)
> > REASON: was started but never finished!
> > 
> > As far as I can tell samba4.local.talloc simply runs (again) the talloc
> > testsuite (why ??) and the normal tallo ctestsuite completes in a few
> > seconds. So I do not understand why it would timeout here.
> > 
> > stodut and error logs do not shed any light, can someone help me
> > understanding what is going on ?
> 
> What's happening here is that the test is failing, but the subunit
> stream is incomplete, that is a test is declared as starting, but not as
> finishing.  
> 
> However, the error code from the binary appears to be 0, as otherwise it
> would be giving the familiar 'missing torture_fail()' line instead.
> 
> So, the 'never finished' is not a time-out, but an error in formatting
> of the test stream. 

Ok 'which' test is failing ?
I have no feedback from autobuild here.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo at samba.org>
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo at redhat.com>