Re: Anti-critical-section assertion failure in mcxt.c reached by walsender

On 5/7/21 11:27 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 5/7/21 12:38 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2021-05-07 00:30:11 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
>>>> On 2021-05-06 21:43:32 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>>> That I'm not sure about. gdb is certainly installed, and thorntail is
>>>>> visibly running the current buildfarm client and is configured with the
>>>>> correct core_file_glob, and I can report that the crash did leave a 'core'
>>>>> file in the data directory (so it's not a case of systemd commandeering
>>>>> the core dump). Seems like core-file collection should've worked
>>>>> ... unless maybe it's not covering TAP tests at all?
>>>> I suspect that is it - there's not really a good way for the buildfarm
>>>> client to even know where there could be data directories :(.
>>> Does it need to? I'm envisioning "find tmp_check -name '$core_file_glob'"
>>> or something along that line.
>> Yea, it'd be doable that way. It'd be a bit harder to associate the core
>> files with specific tests though. But I now checked, and it indeed
>> checks for core files in a specific subset of tests, and that that test
>> only globs inside the passed-in datadir.
>>
> working on it ...
>
>
> cheers
>
>

see
<https://github.com/PGBuildFarm/client-code/commit/5361bb5ff01ee47e8998f5f8f44732ccc5a01183>

cheers

andrew

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