Hi Frank,

On 14/11/06 at 15:34 +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Hm, thinking about this again:
> 
> Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> While doing archive rebuilds to prepare the etch release, I tried to
> >> rebuild your package many times, but never succeeded. It always times
> >> out at various steps, even after setting the timeout value to 90 min,
> >> which is already huge since I build on quite fast bi-opterons.
> >
> > It takes more than 6 hours on my Mobile Pentium (Intel(R) Pentium(R) M
> > processor 1.86GHz stepping 08), and one time it wasn't finished after 10
> > hours where I had to use the CPU time for something else and stopped it.
> > You are just to impatient ;-)
> >
> >> If such long time without output are normal, would it possible to add a
> >> option to some program so that it actually outputs something ?
> >
> > Hm.
> 
> Maybe it wasn't clear to me what "time out" means in your setup.  Does
> it mean that it did not have *any* visible activity, like harddisk
> access, in 90minutes?  This is unexpected.  The really long commands are
> these:

sbuild checks for output to stdout. It means that during 90min, there
was no output to stdout.

>       # Create Unicode encoded subfonts `$(uninamestem)00' .. 
> `$(uninamestem)ff'.
>       # This will take more than an hour.  Make yourself a cup of tea.
>       @echo fontforge -script subfonts.pe $(typeface).ttf $(uninamestem) 
> $(sfddir)/Unicode.sfd
>       @( cd $(builddir) && fontforge -script subfonts.pe $(typeface).ttf 
> $(uninamestem) $(sfddir)/Unicode.sfd > log 2>&1 || ($(ERR)) )
>       @echo
> 
> and similar, all write their stdout to log.  And I'd say there's one
> message every couple of minutes usually.  So if this didn't happen,
> maybe this is more than a normal or wishlist bug...

Maybe, then, they shouldn't output to the logfile. This would allow to
see progress and please sbuild, too.

> >> touch build-stamp.gkai
> >> dh_testdir
> >> touch build-stamp
> >> Build killed with signal TERM after 90 minutes of inactivity
> >> Build killed with signal KILL after 5 minutes of inactivity
> >> Build killed with signal KILL after 5 minutes of inactivity
> >> Build killed with signal KILL after 5 minutes of inactivity
> 
> This looks as if a couple of processes timed out, where killed but the
> build proceeded?  Can you provide a full log?

Yes, see
http://http://ox.blop.info/bazaar/buildlogs/20061114/latex-cjk-chinese-arphic_1.15_etch32.buildlog
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