Re: make check (8.1) hangs forever

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Alan Curry wrote:
>> The last message I get from "make check" is:
>>   PASS: misc/help-version
>>
>> Then it sleeps for a long time. During this time, the inotify-race test is
>> running. There's a "timeout 10s gdb ..." process that's been running for a
>> lot longer than 10 seconds.
>>
>> After ^C stops the make, the timeout, gdb, and a couple of tail processes are
>> lingering and have to be killed manually.
>>
>> So far I've looked at it with strace, which revealed that timeout has sent a
>> SIGTERM to gdb, but gdb has SIGTERM blocked so nothing happens.
>
> thanks for investigating.
> Perhaps we need to use `timeout -sKILL ...`

Sounds good to me.