Bug#847288: libdbd-firebird-perl: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

[Santiago Vila]

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 02:03:25AM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Dec 2016 20:06:46 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> 
> > The "slowness" is the inverse of the speed. My unit of measure
> > (i.e. slowness 1) is the speed of my i3-3217U @ 1.80GHz at home,
> > which was my first autobuilder.
> 
> Don't know where my laptop qualifies with
>     model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2620M CPU @ 2.70GHz
> :)

Most probably, yes.

> I let the test suite run in a loop several times now.
> - In the first round it hang after t/embed-80-event-ithreads.t in the
>   15th run.
> - In the second round, it hang there in the 13th run.
> - I stopped the third loop after 133 successful iterations.
> - The fourth loop hangs in the 9th iteration, again after:

My statistics are a lot worse than that (I'll post them later).

Can you try full builds inside a single-CPU virtual machine?

Thanks.