Buildsystem stuck

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 10:16 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 18:41 +0100, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The buildsys looks stuck, there are 3 packages building but all builders are
> > idle.
> 
> It's gpp again.  So I _promise_ that this time, I'll look at this
> particular issue this afternoon.  I think the issue is that mock isn't
> noticing that child processes have died, they are stuck in "defunct"
> state which means mock hasn't reaped them yet.
> 

What are the steps to recreate the problem?
Can we recreate this is in a mock run outside of the builders? I'd be
curious to see what's happening.

-sv