[Pkg-javascript-devel] nodejs: several nodejs packages hang the autobuilder

[Santiago Vila]

reassign 1087734 nodejs
found 1087734 20.18.0+dfsg-2
retitle 1087734 nodejs: several nodejs packages hang the autobuilder
severity 1087734 grave
thanks

Dear nodejs maintainers:

Several nodejs packages have started to FTBFS randomly recently.
So far this is happening with these packages:

jupyterlab
node-async
node-chart.js
node-dagre-d3-renderer
node-dagre-layout
node-miragejs
node-yjs

This is reflected in the build logs by a line like this:

E: Build killed with signal TERM after 60 minutes of inactivity

which means sbuild decided to terminate the process because the
build did not end after a period of inactivity (in normal conditions,
those packages have typical build times of a few minutes,
so the 60 minutes timeout should be enough).

I've put a collection of build logs here:

https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/nodejs/

In some cases, the failure happens 100% of the time here,
so I can offer a VM to reproduce if required (please
contact me privately for details).

One remarkable detail: My build environment is made from
VMs with 1 and 2 CPUs. In this case, building with 1 CPU
almost always suceeeds, and building with 2 CPUs almost
always fails. Maybe this is a hint of why it's happening.

Thanks.