Re: [Taskforest-discuss] `make test` failures?

[Steve H. <st...@id...>]

Aijaz,

Thanks for the prompt reply. I think you asked the right questions.
Here is what I have learned this morning.

First the easy questions: I saw the exact same set of failures last
night installing both through CPAN and directly from the tarball. Yes,
all of the relevant directories are writeable.

Now for the news: running the exact same commands this morning (`perl
Makefile.PL`, `make`, & `make test`) does *not* result in the same
failures experienced last night. That is, all of the tests pass,
*until* t/025_Midnight_Ready, which still hangs.

When I was installing TaskForest last night it was between 10pm and
midnight, PST. My system time zone was set to 'America/Los_Angeles'.

If I change my system time zone to 'America/Chicago' then
t/025_Midnight_Ready does not hang, and all test pass with the
exception of t/018TaskForestDaemon, which seems to have errors either
way (after starting the daemon with the suggested `perl -T -I lib
./blib/script/taskforestd --config_file=./taskforestd.test.cfg`).

Interestingly, between 10pm and midnight PST and CST are on different
days. Could this have caused the other `make test` failures?

Looking inside t/families/MIDNIGHT I see:


start => '00:00', tz=>'GMT', days => 'Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun'

J_005( start=>'04:59')  # 11:59pm Chicago time April 19 2009


Based on the comment this test appears to make the assumption that
4:59 GMT is 11:59pm Chicago time. While this was true April 19, 2009
it is not true today due to Daylight Savings Time not being in effect.

2009-04-09: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?month=4&day=19&year=2009&hour=4&min=55&sec=0&p1=0&p2=64
2010-02-02: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?month=2&day=2&year=2010&hour=4&min=55&sec=0&p1=0&p2=64

Could this have caused t/025_Midnight_Ready to hang?

Thanks,
 steve



On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Aijaz Ansari
<en...@us...> wrote:
> Steve:
>
> Thanks for  your detailed email.  There may be a problem with the test case
> or something unexpected in  your setup.  I'll try to duplicate this on my
> end.  Could you please answer these questions for me?  It might help
> identify the problem.
>
> What time zone is your computer set at, and at what time were you running
> these tests?  It really shouldn't matter, but it may help identify the
> problem.
>
> Were you attempting to install via CPAN or did you download the package and
> and manually type in perl Makefile.PL, make and make test?
>
> Did the linux user you were logged in as have write permission to the
> current directory you were in?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aijaz.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Steve Hulet <st...@id...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just downloaded Task Forest 1.33 with high hopes and great
>> expectations--I've been looking for a simple yet powerful
>> text-file-based job scheduler of this sort for a long time.
>>
>> I ran `perl Makefile.PL`, `make`, and `make test` but many of the unit
>> test fail and t/025_Midnight_Ready hangs after printing 1/19. Is this
>> expected? Did I miss a setup or configuration step?
>>
>> I'm running perl v5.10.0 on Linux version 2.6.31-17-generic (Ubuntu
>> 9.10). `make test` output included below.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>  steve
>>
>
> <snip>