Bug#727009: FTBFS on kfreebsd-i386: FAIL: test-pangocairo-threads

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 21/10/13 15:54, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Source: pango1.0
> Version: 1.36.0-1
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-bsd at lists.debian.org
> 
> pango1.0 FTBFS on kfreebsd-i386 when executing the test-suite:
> 
> /«PKGBUILDDIR»/./test-driver: line 95: 41714 Trace/breakpoint trap   "$@" > $log_file 2>&1
> FAIL: test-pangocairo-threads

The test is failing with

(process:7450): GLib-ERROR **: creating thread '37': Error creating thread:
Resource temporarily unavailable

The test is trying to create 100 threads, but pthread_create returns EAGAIN
because it hits some limit, which makes g_thread_new() abort (as stated in the
docs, g_thread_try_new() wouldn't abort but return NULL).

The question is, why are we hitting the limit so soon here?

ulimit on fischer (where I'm debugging this) reports:

max user processes              (-u) 5547

so I doubt we're hitting the maximum number of threads here. Perhaps the test
should use g_thread_try_new() and retry a limited number of times on EAGAIN.

Regards,
Emilio