Comment # 8 on bug 974419 from Michel Normand

(In reply to Richard Biener from comment #7)
> I suppose this does not reproduce locally?  

locally ? do you mean without osc ?

> The log tells you the forked
> make process is still running and as orphanripper is invoked w/o a timeout
> it waits until that process terminates.
> 
> I'm quite sure this is a bug with the VM environment - what happens if you
> remove the use of orphanripper (not sure if the reason RH uses it also
> applies to us - we simply copied Fedoras .spec file).

I did a trial yesterday in a ppc64le guest of osc build without orphanripper in
spec file, and the build hang on second trial, with same process tree as
comment #5 and comment #6 with x86_64 guest (with orphanripper)
===
[michel@twppc64le:~/work/openSUSE:Factory:Rings:1-MinimalX/gdb]
$idx=1;while test 1; do echo "=== trial $idx"; osc build >/tmp/x || break; 
((idx++)); done
=== trial 1
cat: /proc/device-tree/ibm,partition-name: No such file or directory
=== trial 2
cat: /proc/device-tree/ibm,partition-name: No such file or directory
===
ps axf
...
\_ make check-parallel
 \_ /bin/sh -c make -k do-check-parallel; \ /bin/sh
/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/gdb-7.10.1/gdb/testsuite/dg-extract-results.sh \  
`find outputs -name gdb.sum -print` > gdb.sum; \ /bin/sh
/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/gdb-7.10.1/gdb/testsuite/dg-extract-results.sh -L \
  `find outputs -name gdb.log -print` > gdb.log
  \_ make -k do-check-parallel
   \_ /bin/sh -c rootme=`pwd`; export rootme;
srcdir=/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/gdb-7.10.1/gdb/testsuite ; export srcdir ;
EXPECT=`if [ "${READ1}" != "" ] ; then echo ${rootme}/expect-read1; elif [ -f
${rootme}/../../expect/expect ] ; then echo ${rootme}/../../expect/expect ;
else echo expect ; fi` ; export EXPECT ; EXEEXT= ; export EXEEXT ;
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$rootme/../../expect:$rootme/../../libstdc++:$rootme/../../tk/unix:$rootme/../../tcl/unix:$rootme/../../bfd:$rootme/../../opcodes:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH;
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; if [ -f ${rootme}/../../expect/expect ] ; then
TCL_LIBRARY=${srcdir}/../../tcl/library ; export TCL_LIBRARY ; fi ; runtest
GDB_PARALLEL=yes --outdir=outputs/gdb.multi/multi-arch-exec
gdb.multi/multi-arch-exec.exp --target_board=unix/-m64
     \_ expect -- /usr/share/dejagnu/runtest.exp GDB_PARALLEL=yes
--outdir=outputs/gdb.multi/multi-arch-exec gdb.multi/multi-arch-exec.exp
--target_board=unix/-m64