Description of problem:

This issue was discovered during testing of BZ682815, please see Bug 682815 for more details. 

A timeout exception on the Broker can be seen while running the issue reproducer.

cluster_tests.LongTests.test_management ................................. fail
Error during test:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "./qpid-python-test", line 311, in run
      phase()
    File "/root/pematous/bz682815/run_cluster_tests2/cluster_tests.py", line
830, in test_management
      cluster.start()
    File "/root/pematous/bz682815/run_cluster_tests2/brokertest.py", line 458,
in start
      self._brokers.append(self.test.broker(self.args+args, name, expect, wait,
port=port))
    File "/root/pematous/bz682815/run_cluster_tests2/brokertest.py", line 525,
in broker
      raise RethrownException("Failed to start broker %s(%s): %s" % (b.name,
b.log, e))
  RethrownException: Failed to start broker cluster0-7(cluster0-7.log): Timed
out waiting for broker cluster0-7:
      2011-06-11 13:04:39 notice Cluster store state: empty
      2011-06-11 13:04:39 notice cluster(10.34.45.2:9210 PRE_INIT)
configuration change: 10.34.45.2:7122 10.34.45.2:7388 10.34.45.2:9210
      2011-06-11 13:04:39 notice cluster(10.34.45.2:9210 PRE_INIT) Members
joined: 10.34.45.2:9210
      2011-06-11 13:04:39 debug cluster(10.34.45.2:9210 PRE_INIT) received
initial status from 10.34.45.2:9210
      2011-06-11 13:04:39 debug cluster(10.34.45.2:9210 PRE_INIT) received
initial status from 10.34.45.2:7122

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/root/pematous/bz682815/run_cluster_tests2/brokertest.py", line 523,
in broker
      try: b.ready()
    File "/root/pematous/bz682815/run_cluster_tests2/brokertest.py", line 418,
in ready
      raise Exception(
  Exception: Timed out waiting for broker cluster0-7:
      2011-06-11 13:04:39 notice Cluster store state: empty
      2011-06-11 13:04:39 notice cluster(10.34.45.2:9210 PRE_INIT)
configuration change: 10.34.45.2:7122 10.34.45.2:7388 10.34.45.2:9210
      2011-06-11 13:04:39 notice cluster(10.34.45.2:9210 PRE_INIT) Members
joined: 10.34.45.2:9210
      2011-06-11 13:04:39 debug cluster(10.34.45.2:9210 PRE_INIT) received
initial status from 10.34.45.2:9210
      2011-06-11 13:04:39 debug cluster(10.34.45.2:9210 PRE_INIT) received
initial status from 10.34.45.2:7122
Error during teardown:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "./qpid-python-test", line 311, in run
      phase()
    File "/root/pematous/bz682815/run_cluster_tests2/brokertest.py", line 506,
in tearDown
      if err: raise Exception("Unexpected process status:\n    "+"\n   
".join(err))
  Exception: Unexpected process status:
      Wait failed testagent-7293: [Errno 10] No child processes
      Wait failed qpid-queue-stats-7295: [Errno 10] No child processes
      Wait failed testagent-7895: [Errno 10] No child processes

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qpid-cpp-mrg-0.10-8

How reproducible:
Unknown - please see Bug 682815 for details

Steps to Reproduce:
Please follow the 'Steps to Reproduce' in Bug 682815 to reproduce this issue

Actual results:
Timeout exception on the Broker

Expected results:
Test passes repeatedly.

Additional info:

test log+data can be found:
mrg-qe-02.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com:/root/pematous/bz682815_data