[Python-Dev] Sporadic failures of test_subprocess and test_multiprocessing_spawn

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Victor Stinner
> <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Are you able to reproduce these issues? I'm unable to reproduce them
>> on Fedora 21. Maybe they are more likely on Debian-like operating
>> systems?
>
> I just tried it on my Debian Wheezy AMD64, not running as root. (The
> same computer the buildbot runs on, but the host OS rather than the
> virtual machine.) Unable to reproduce. Ran a full 'make test' and
> still no problems.
>
> Am now trying it on the buildbot itself, to see if I can recreate it.

It seems to be stalling out. I'm not sure exactly what's happening
here. Running just that one file doesn't do it, but running the full
test suite results in a stall.

ChrisA