[Swan-dev] my test run hung last night

[Antony Antony]

On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 06:22:30PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com>
> 
> | So: this looks like a bug in stwantest.
> 
> I'm surprised to find that gdb can tell one something about a running
> python program.
> 
> Apparently swantest is hung in line 1854:
>     th_responder.join()
> It's never going to finish the join.
> 
> Antony: any idea what's going on?

the join never returned? and no timeout.
swantest could be improved to be more reselient to kvm startup failures. 
I will add timeout to those join(). So fart it appears you run into this more often.