Re: [Qemu-devel] Buildbot failure: libqtest init_socket assertion failure

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 01:38:31PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Mi, 2013-11-20 at 10:00 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > Hi Gerd,
> > make check is failing on kraxel_rhel61 due to the following:
> > 
> > ERROR:tests/libqtest.c:71:init_socket: assertion failed (ret != -1): (-1 != 
> > -1)
> > 
> > http://buildbot.b1-systems.de/qemu/builders/default_x86_64_rhel61/builds/782
> > 
> > Can you investigate?  Perhaps there are stale files.
> 
> Probably, that was the case when it happened last time.
> 
> Yep, there are tons of /tmp/qtest-$number.{qmp,sock} files.  Cleared
> now.
> 
> Where do they come from?  Running "make check" manually does _not_ leave
> stale files in /tmp for me.  Hmm.  What is going on?

Quite probably a resource leak in libqtest.  But I'm not sure which
scenario causes them to accumulate - maybe when a test assertion fails?

Stefan