From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12945 invoked by alias); 8 Feb 2002 16:47:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 12881 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2002 16:47:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.114.26.18) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Feb 2002 16:47:32 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E89A43E77; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 11:47:30 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C640122.3020104@cygnus.com> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 08:47:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20020103 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: testsuite problems References: <200202081628.QAA04564@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00140.txt.bz2 > I'm currently seeing the following when running the testsuite. > > Running /nfs/sun18/work/rearnsha/gnusrc/src/gdb/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/ > corefile.exp ... > failed to get controlling terminal using TIOCSCTTYparent: sync byte write: > broken pipe BSD? > However, it only occurs if I'm running the whole suite. If I just run > corefile.exp it completes ok. > > I seem to remember something like this once before (on another testsuite); > IIRC it occurs when a connection to a child isn't shut down cleanly after > a test (normally because the test failed in some way); the controlling pty > isn't released cleanly and we then eventually run out of ptys. Could this > be the problem here? -- certainly I'm seeing rather a large number of > failures at the moment, since I'm in the middle of trying to raise the ARM > code to multi-arch 1. I don't know, could well be. I've seen the message on FreeBSD and NetBSD systems and never been able to track it down - re-running the testsuite made it disappear :-( Andrew