Buildsys deadlock?

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Thu Oct 27 02:10:44 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 18:02 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 23:58 +0200, Andreas Bierfert wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:08:36 -0400
> > Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> >  
> > > Yup, it's mock stuck again reading from the child pipe of a defunct
> > > child.  We need to fix this...
> > 
> > Hm seems to be reproducible... I requeued the job and got the system stuck
> > again (but tought about kill this time ^^).
> 
> is it on an fc3 build or fc4? 
> 
> I'm just trying to figure out why we didn't see this as often before.

I think partially that plague isn't as susceptible to this any more
since I stopped using pipes to get output from mock, so we now get the
problems with mock + pipes instead of plague + pipes.

Dan




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