Bug#826307: liggghts: FTBFS on powerpc: test suite hangs

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Source: liggghts
Version: 3.3.1+repack1-1
Severity: serious

Your package fails to build on powerpc, where the test suite is
hanging:

insertion: proc 1 at 100 %
INFO: Particle insertion ins: inserted 891 particle templates (mass 1.910893) at step 1
 - a total of 891 particle templates (mass 1.910893) inserted so far.
       1      891  0.086060477            0    5732.6777       0.0015 
Loop time of 0.0217927 on 2 procs for 1 steps with 891 atoms

Pair  time (%) = 1.26362e-05 (0.0579837)
Neigh time (%) = 0.000283122 (1.29916)
Comm  time (%) = 8.14199e-05 (0.373612)
Outpt time (%) = 3.05176e-05 (0.140036)
Other time (%) = 0.021385 (98.1292)

Nlocal:    445.5 ave 446 max 445 min
Histogram: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Nghost:    50 ave 52 max 48 min
Histogram: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Neighs:    707.5 ave 721 max 694 min
Histogram: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Total # of neighbors = 1415
Ave neighs/atom = 1.5881
Neighbor list builds = 1
Dangerous builds = 0
Setting up run ...
Memory usage per processor = 8.00555 Mbytes
Step Atoms KinEng rke heattran Volume 
       1      891  0.086060477            0    5732.6777       0.0015 
make: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
debian/rules:15: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_test' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_test] Terminated
Build killed with signal TERM after 150 minutes of inactivity

Full logs at:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=liggghts&ver=3.3.1%2Brepack1-1%2Bb2&arch=powerpc

This may be related to this openmpi bug: #814183. If so, you may want
to disable the relevant tests on powerpc or force mpi to just use
one processor there.

Cheers,
Emilio