Bug 1954158

Summary:	Please update DejaGnu to fix a bug with handling of timeouts
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Component:	dejagnu	Assignee:	Marek Polacek <mpolacek>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Lenka Špačková <lkuprova>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
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Version:	9.0	CC:	databases-maint, extras-qa, hhorak, jakub, jmoskovc, jwakely, lkuprova, mcermak, mmuzila, pkubat
Target Milestone:	beta	Keywords:	Bugfix, Triaged
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Fixed In Version:	dejagnu-1.6.3-1.el9	Doc Type:	No Doc Update
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Clone Of:	1952505	Environment:
Last Closed:	2022-05-17 16:06:38 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Jakub Jelinek 2021-04-27 17:25:55 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1952505 +++

Description of problem:

The version of DejaGnu in Fedora is old and has a bug that causes problems for GCC testing.

See details in
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-dejagnu/2018-07/msg00000.html
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100203


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

dejagnu-1.6.1-7.fc32
dejagnu-1.6.1-8.fc33
dejagnu-1.6.1-9.fc34

How reproducible:

Always.


Actual results:

Tests that deadlock and timeout do not get killed.


Expected results:

Tests are killed if they time out.

Additional info:

The patch at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-dejagnu/2018-07/msg00002.html is in the 1.6.2 release from November 2018, but has never made it into Fedora.

Other distros either ship 1.6.2 or include that patch.

--- Additional comment from Jonathan Wakely on 2021-04-22 12:19:01 UTC ---

P.S. I'd be happy to do the update myself if that's OK.

--- Additional comment from Jakub Jelinek on 2021-04-27 17:24:10 UTC ---

gcc needs to remove some tests otherwise these hangs kill the builds almost always.  Otherwise it is only sometimes.

Comment 1 Honza Horak 2022-01-10 21:16:44 UTC

If we do it, verification might be done by running a build of the packages that depend on dejagnu build-time:

# dnf repoquery --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=*-source --whatrequires dejagnu --quiet
automake-0:1.16.2-6.el9.src
binutils-0:2.35.2-13.el9.src
compat-libgfortran-48-0:4.8.5-36.4.el9.1.src
dwz-0:0.14-3.el9.src
environment-modules-0:5.0.1-1.el9.src
findutils-1:4.8.0-5.el9.src
gcc-0:11.2.1-6.1.el9.src
libffi-0:3.4.2-7.el9.src
ltrace-0:0.7.91-43.el9.src
mingw-binutils-0:2.37-1.el9.src

A tmt test is now proposed in Fedora, the same should work fine for RHEL:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/dejagnu/pull-request/3#request_diff

Comment 2 Honza Horak 2022-01-11 18:07:47 UTC

A PR for rebasing to 1.6.3 is ready at https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/dejagnu/-/merge_requests/6

However, I've realized that staring RHEL-9, the ownership of dejagnu was transferred to the sst_pt_gcc_glibc and this bug was not re-assigned properly. Doing it now.

Marek, assigning to you as you're the default assignee for dejagnu in rhel-9 -- can you confirm you can take care of it further? Some sanity test already exists and PR is prepared, so should not need much, but I don't feel our SST should work on the component instead of yours.

Comment 3 Marek Polacek 2022-01-11 18:33:58 UTC

OK, I'll finish up the rebase.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-17 16:06:38 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (new packages: dejagnu), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:4305