kdepim-addons tests get stuck due to akonadiserver

[Ben Cooksley]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 11:13 PM, Volker Krause <vkrause at kde.org> wrote:
> On Friday, 20 July 2018 11:17:11 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Currently kdepim-addons has at least one test which results in an
>> Akonadi Server instance being launched.
>>
>> While this may not seem like a problem, unfortunately the test doesn't
>> cleanup after itself and shutdown Akonadi Server afterwards. This is
>> an issue as CTest refuses to continue if a test process leaves any
>> processes behind, as it assumes the test is still running.
>>
>> As a consequence of this bug, the CI runs for kdepim-addons regularly
>> require manual intervention to unstick them.

Hi Volker,

I've taken a look at a currently stuck build and can confirm it is
messageviewerplugins-rendertest which is doing this.
(See https://build.kde.org/view/CI%20Management/job/Applications%20kdepim-addons%20kf5-qt5%20SUSEQt5.9/319/consoleFull)

>
> Do you happen to know which test that is? My suspicion would be rendertest, as
> that seems to access Akonadi without the Akonadi test isolation system. If so,
> the fix should be fairly straightforward, run the test in the same way we run
> all other Akonadi tests.
>
> Regards,
> Volker

Thanks,
Ben