Regression in Frameworks - DBus Hangs

[Ben Cooksley]

On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 4:41 PM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Following commits made to Frameworks somewhere in the October 21 to
> October 28 time frame, the unit tests of Konsole on the CI system have
> started to hang following completion.
>
> This hang is occurring due to a behaviour of CTest, where it will wait
> (indefinitely) following the conclusion of a test for processes
> spawned by that test to exit.
>
> Previously, the "konsole --separate" process launched by Konsole's
> dbus unit test would exit normally, however following the changes in
> Frameworks it now hangs and does not exit as expected.
>
> This is causing quite a bit of trouble as these builds require manual
> Sysadmin intervention in order to have the jobs complete successfully.
>
> Could someone take a look into this regression please?
>
> Regretfully it isn't possible to run GDB within the CI system
> environment (Docker drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE) so i'm unable to get a
> backtrace out of Konsole to find where it is stuck.

Ping?

Anyone got any idea why this behaviour has regressed?

>
> Thanks,
> Ben

Regards,
Ben