selftest on PPA

[Martin Pool]

2009/6/16 Maritza Mendez <martitzam at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi.  I'm trying to understanding what to expect from the PPA.  I figure I'll
> start with a minimal install from PPA and run selftest.
>
> So I removed all traces of bzr from a machine running jaunty and then
> subscribed to the PPA.
>
> Currently, the PPA offers bzr 1.15.0-1 and bzrtools 1.15-1.  So I installed
> them.  No other plugins are installed.
>
> When I run 'bzr --no-plugins selftest -v' things go smoothly for a while
> with just a few failures.
>
> But then testing hangs (for more than 20 minutes before I hit ctrl-C) on
> test_http.TestActivity.test_get(urllib,HTTP/1.0,https)
>
> There is absolutely nothing interesting in .bzr.log, as shown here for
> running just 'bzr --no-plugins test_http -v' :
>
> Mon 2009-06-15 19:34:59 -0700
> 0.014  bzr arguments: [u'--no-plugins', u'selftest', u'test_http', u'-v']
> 0.053  encoding stdout as sys.stdout encoding 'UTF-8'
>
> How should I interpret this apparent failure of selftest on a minimal
> install of just bzr and bzrtools?
>
> What am I missing?

This indicates a test failure of some kind.  It may be that your
machine has a firewall blocking some loopback connections, or it may
be a problem in the http library or transport, or it may be something
else.  A good next step would be to run say "strace -p PID" on that
process to see just where it's stuck.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>