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

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Saturday 07 November 2015, a les 10:36:18, David Faure va escriure:
> 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?

I too have serious problems being able to reproduce the same results on the 
build nodes than CI has :(

I guess we're most probably missing some step (e.g. kdelibs failing test 
always work when i try to reproduce it, rocs compiles fine, etc)

Cheers,
  Albert