Port hanging (unresponsive to Ctrl+C, need SIGKILL)

[Clemens Lang]

Hi,

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 09:29:49AM +0200, Leonardo Brondani Schenkel wrote:
> On 2017-05-24 23:47, Clemens Lang wrote:
> > I've previously seen builds using xcodebuild in particular hanging
> > after they were apparently done. In the cases I've seen so far
> > xcodebuild eventually terminated itself after quite a bit of time.
> > 
> > Did you try sending the kill signal to the xcodebuild process only,
> > or was that already terminated at this point?
> 
> It's already terminated. This is the process that remains:
> 91761 macports /opt/local/libexec/macports/bin/tclsh8.5 /opt/local/bin/port
> -d install +logo
> 
> I can see a single child under it:
> 91820 macports (sh)
> I cannot kill process 91820, even with sudo kill -9.
> 
> I just noticed now that if I'm patient and I wait long enough (~3
> minutes), the build actually "recovers" and continues.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I've been seeing as well.

> I'm a bit lost here. The upstream shell build script, which runs a
> virtually identical `xcodebuild` command as this port, does not
> exhibit this behaviour.

That's valuable information.

> I can provide build logs. I did not attach them here since I'm not
> sure if it is regular practice to send attachments to the list.

Can you file a ticket, attach them there and post the ticket URL?

-- 
Clemens