[CRITICAL] KIO Test "threadtest" can enter into infinite loop

[David Faure]

On Saturday 07 November 2015 11:17:31 Ben Cooksley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It appears the test running with the binary name of "threadtest" in
> kio has a grave bug which can lead to it entering into an infinite
> loop.
> 
> This was consuming virtually the entire resources of one builder with
> old hung processes, and the whole core of another builder -
> drastically limiting the capabilities of the CI system (even though
> KIO was not being built at the time).
> 
> Can someone please investigate? Manual intervention (with kill -9) is
> needed to remove these hung processes.

It of course works fine on my own machine.

And I just tried running it on LinuxNode2, in ~/builds/kio/stable-kf5-qt5/build/autotests
(after sourcing ~/kio.env which I just generated), and it ran fine (multiple times).

Any suggestion on how / where to hit the issue?

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE Frameworks 5