Bug#737380: glib2.0: FTBFS on mipsel: gapplication test failed: ECHILD was received by waitpid()

[Simon McVittie]

tags 737380 + confirmed
thanks

On 02/02/14 10:20, Simon McVittie wrote:
> # random seed: R02S852f3ece8c5f76fcefb61e81eb83e7a7
> # Start of gapplication tests
> ok 1 /gapplication/no-dbus
> ok 2 /gapplication/basic
> # GLib-FATAL-WARNING: In call to g_spawn_sync(), exit status of a
> child process was requested but ECHILD was received by waitpid().
> Most likely the process is ignoring SIGCHLD, or some other thread is
> invoking waitpid() with a nonpositive first argument; either behavior
> can break applications that use g_spawn_sync either directly or
> indirectly.
> (/«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/build/deb/gio/tests/.libs/lt-gapplication:10577):
> GLib-WARNING **: In call to g_spawn_sync(), exit status of a child
> process was requested but ECHILD was received by waitpid(). Most
> likely the process is ignoring SIGCHLD, or some other thread is
> invoking waitpid() with a nonpositive first argument; either behavior
> can break applications that use g_spawn_sync either directly or
> indirectly.

Reproducible on eder (mipsel), mostly in test 3 (/gapplication/no-appid)
but sometimes in test 2 (/gapplication/basic).

In the source tree after the FTBFS, you can run:

debian/build/deb/gio/tests/gapplication

to see this happen.

It takes a few hours for the build to complete. I currently have a built
tree in eder:/home/smcv/tmp/glib2.0-2.38.2-2 which people might be able
to just 'cp -a'.

Regards,
    S