sys_select() issue? (Was:Re: Sysinst behavior change? (amd64) )

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

anita/py_expect still seems to be hanging or timing-out rather than 
detecting the system "halted by root" message, preventing any successful 
tests runs.


On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Paul Goyette wrote:

> > > Have you updated your host OS around the time when the problem
> > > started?  I'm wondering if it might be suffering from kern/45187.
> >
> > Hmmm, I don't know about kern/45187, but I _did_ update the host OS 
> > recently. I was previously running on 5.99.52, but recently updated to 
> > 5.99.55.  The timing of the upgrade is consistent with the appearance of 
> > this problem.
> >
> > So, "maybe"
>
> Well, I just installed an up-to-the-minute kernel on one of my other machines 
> and gave it a try.  No change, it still  hangs after the 'halt' command and 
> waits for expect() to time-out.  I have verified, and this kernel uses 
> kern/sys_select.c rev 1.35
>
> So either I'm having a different problem, or sys_select is still not quite 
> completely fixed.  :)
>
>
> Just as an additional datapoint, there were multiple "stalls" reported during 
> the installation of base and comp sets ...



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