[PKG-Openstack-devel] Bug#835179: Bug#835179: zaqar: FTBFS with eatmydata (build hangs)

[Thomas Goirand]

On 08/24/2016 06:00 PM, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> 
>> On 08/23/2016 01:59 PM, Santiago Vila wrote:
> 
>>> The positive thing of this is that if the failure comes from
>>> some common code or tests which are shared between aodh, ceilometer
>>> and zaqar, then maybe it would be possible to fix the three problems
>>> at the same time.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> I believe it's due to the way aodh, ceilometer and zaqar are killing the
>> daemons they use for testing. See for example:
>>
>> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/openstack/zaqar.git/tree/debian/setup-test-env-mongodb.sh
>>
>> If you can suggest a better way to kill the mongodb daemon after tests
>> are run, I'd very much welcome that. It'd be hard for me to test, since
>> I don't have the same environment as you do.
> 
> I have no experience killing daemons, sorry, but I'd like to point out
> that my building environment is not anything special:
> 
> I'm using sbuild, and that's all.
>
> This is essentially the same program which is used in the official
> autobuilders, so if something makes sbuild to hang, it could in theory
> make the official autobuilders to hang too.
> 
> So, to summarize: To reproduce this failure, please try sbuild :-)

I use sbuild also, and nothing special too, and I never experienced the
issue you've referenced. How did you setup eatmydata, so I can reproduce
that part too?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)