Hey there, On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior <glasswal...@yahoo.com.br> wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post such question so I > apologize for any inconvenience in advance. > > I created a Windows XP SP3 VM in Virtual Box to execute smoke tests using > CPAN-Tester-Smoker. The box is running Strawberry Perl 5.14.2 with > multithread support. >
Did you mean "CPAN::Reporter::Smoker" ? > Every time that I start the program, it became "hanging" while executing the > following test: > > Running make test > Delayed until after prerequisites > Running test for module 'IPC::Pipeline' > Running make for C/CP/CPANEL/IPC-Pipeline-0.6.tar.gz > Checksum for > C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\id\C\CP\CPANEL\IPC-Pipeline-0.6. > tar.gz ok > > CPAN.pm: Building C/CP/CPANEL/IPC-Pipeline-0.6.tar.gz > > Checking if your kit is complete... > Looks good > Writing Makefile for IPC::Pipeline > Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json > (C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe Makefile.PL exited with 0) > CPAN::Reporter: Makefile.PL result is 'pass', No errors. > cp lib/IPC/Pipeline.pm blib\lib\IPC\Pipeline.pm > (C:\strawberry\c\bin\dmake.EXE exited with 0) > CPAN::Reporter: dmake result is 'pass', No errors. > CPANEL/IPC-Pipeline-0.6.tar.gz > C:\strawberry\c\bin\dmake.EXE -- OK > Running make test > C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" > "test_harness(0, > 'blib\lib', 'blib\arch')" t/*.t > > This happening during the phase to test the Archive-Tar-Builder-0.5 > distribution. > > Do you any idea of what could be happening? I need use CRTL+C to stop the > process. I double checked the Task Manager and it shows four perl process, > none of them taking any processor time, like if they are blocked waiting for > I/O or something else. > In the case of hangs, I usually find that process explorer (procexp.exe) is able to give a stack trace with enough info to make some kind of decent guess about where it is hanging. > That happens after successfully testing a good amount of distributions, and > always stops there. > > The only gotcha I had while installing Perl and configuring CPAN is that > while installing CPAN-Reporter I could not submit a verification key (typed > ENTER after entering the key, without any result). After some retries and > reseting the configuration it just worked, without any reason to explain. > > Might be something related to the Windows XP console? Or is it a issue with > the distribution? How to deal with those cases (release the Smoker to > continue testing other distributions)? > http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/CPAN-Reporter-Smoker-0.24/lib/CPAN/Reporter/Smoker.pm mentions something about a "command_timeout" option , to terminate hanging tests ... do you have this option set? P.S. I have never run a smoker, so I am only guessing :)
