[DRE-maint] Bug#831244: Bug#831244: ruby-eventmachine: FTBFS: Build hangs minutes of inactivity

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 02/08/16 at 01:05 +0200, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote:
> * Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org> [160801 15:21]:
> > On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 10:21:39PM +0200, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > > * Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at debian.org> [160731 20:17]:
> > > > During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
> > > > amd64.
> > > 
> > > So I tried debugging this a bit; for me the 'TestFileWatch' test
> > > hangs, both with our 1.0.7-3 and also if I update that to 1.2.0.1.
> > > 
> > > Now from what I see the test uses inotify; if our test builds use
> > > overlayfs, maybe that just does not support inotify (properly).
> > 
> > if it's a single test that hangs we can probably report the bug upstream
> > and skip it for now?
> 
> If my analysis is correct, then yes, that'd be my preferred option.
> But I'd like somebody else to have a look at it too - after all I've
> done mostly guesswork.

Hi,

For my archive rebuilds, I use sbuild+schroot in tarball mode, on an
ext4 filesystem. So unfortunately I don't see anything strange on that
side that would cause problems with inotify. :(

Lucas