Github user zd-project commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/2789 I managed to fix the original timeout error by wrapping around a nimbus gauge with exception handling code. However the PR still failed the storm-server test due to error in starting fork. I don't really know what caused this. @srdo Have you seen anything like this before? Additionally, I think our tests have some flaws in manipulating zookeeper as I constantly see a component tries to connect to Zookeeper that is not set up in the test, causing timeout warning in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-3128
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