535310 - Testsuite: Infinite loop, no output

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I've repeatedly had it now that the testsuite stops proceeding, but uses 100% CPU infinitely. There's no output whatsoever that would hint at any problem, usually there's no output from the test at all.

This is usually caused by a bad test or bug in fakeserver. But that makes writing test code a nightmare, because you have no idea what the problem is.

I'll update the bug as soon as I know what triggers this.

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Something as obvious as fake server throwing is enough to trigger this. :-(

At least check-interactive then gives a stack, in my current situation. But just before, I had a case where it did not.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Ben Bucksch (:BenB) from comment #1)
> Something as obvious as fake server throwing is enough to trigger this. :-(
> 
> At least check-interactive then gives a stack, in my current situation. But
> just before, I had a case where it did not.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Removing myslef on all the bugs I'm cced on. Please NI me if you need something on MailNews Core bugs from me.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I think we can safely close this by now.