Buildsystem stuck

[Dan Williams]

On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 10:30 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> 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.

I'm going to start looking at it using gpp/#814 in about half an hour.
It seems to happen quite a bit in the FC3 buildroots, but that's not a
scientific test.

Dan