Test runtime for Akonadi

[Ben Cooksley]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2018, 23:20 Daniel Vrátil, <dvratil at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>

Hi Daniel,


> I noticed that the CI tooling script seems to start kdeinit5 automatically
> before executing the tests. Is this a recent change? I cannot think of any
> change in Akonadi that could've caused this.
>

The CI tests have started kdeinit5 for a very long time (back in the KDE 4
days we would start kdeinit4 and nepomukserver) so this change shouldn't be
the cause.

It is virtually a hard requirement we start kdeinit5 due to the limitation
of CTest not allowing processes from tests to remain running.


> I wonder if running the isolated tests inside its own DBus session would
> help
> - not only improving the isolation but also getting us full control over
> the
> test session...
>

Is there any way of easily telling why Akonadi isn't exiting, before we
start looking into full isolation?

Cheers,
Ben


>
> On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 12:25:52 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 6:15 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 11:16 PM Daniel Vrátil <dvratil at kde.org>
> wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:16:55 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > Currently it looks like execution of tests for Akonadi take an
> > > > > excessively long amount of time, at least in the most recent
> version.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've taken a look and it seems that this failure is caused by
> Akonadi
> > > > > Server being left running by the akonadi-mysql-entitycachetest
> test.
> > > > >
> > > > > Could someone take a look please?
> > > >
> > > > Can't say for sure which test caused this, but looks like the
> > > > akonadiserver
> > > > remained running even after the akonaditest has finished - probably
> some
> > > > race condition.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately this race condition just triggered again, this time with
> > > test akonadi-sqlite-subscriptiontest :(
> >
> > It is unfortunately also triggered by KMail, which was blocked this
> evening.
> > Please see
> >
> https://build.kde.org/job/Applications%20kmail%20stable-kf5-qt5%20SUSEQt5.9
> > /workflow-stage/
> > > > I started another build manually and everything went fine all the
> tests
> > > > finished in couple minutes, so I think this was an one-off incident,
> > > > but I'll keep an eye on it and investigate it deeper if it should
> > > > started to happen more often.
> > > >
> > > > Dan
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Ben
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ben
> >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > Ben
> > > >
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