Bug 16263

Summary: AB-INT PTEST: procps ptest failure: in kill_with_SIGUSR1
Product: [QA/Testing] Package Testing (ptest) Reporter: João Marcos Costa <joaomarcos.costa>
Component: ptestAssignee: Pratik Farkase <pratik.farkase>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: mathieu.dubois-briand, pratik.farkase, randy.macleod, richard.purdie
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 6.1   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Don't know

Description João Marcos Costa 2026-04-23 08:32:21 UTC 
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/61/builds/3520/steps/13/logs/stdio

Failed ptests:
{'procps': ['kill_with_SIGUSR1']}

qemuarm64-ptest ubuntu2204-vk-arm2

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Running /usr/lib/procps/ptest/testsuite/kill.test/kill.exp ...
PASS: kill with no arguments
PASS: kill list signal names
PASS: kill list signal names in table
PASS: kill convert signal name to number no space
PASS: kill convert signal name to number with space
PASS: kill convert SIG-prefixed signal name to number no space
PASS: kill convert SIG-prefixed signal name to number with space
PASS: kill convert signal number to name no space
PASS: kill convert signal number to name with space
FAIL: kill with SIGUSR1
ERROR: tcl error sourcing /usr/lib/procps/ptest/testsuite/kill.test/kill.exp.
ERROR: tcl error code NONE
ERROR: : spawn id exp17 not open
    while executing
"expect {
	-i $pipeproc_spawnid
        -re "$reg" { pass "$testname" }
        default { fail "$testname" }
		timeout { fail "$testname (timeout)" }
 ..."
    (procedure "expect_pipeproc_pass" line 4)
    invoked from within
"expect_pipeproc_pass "$test" "SIG SIGUSR2""
    (file "/usr/lib/procps/ptest/testsuite/kill.test/kill.exp" line 58)
    invoked from within
"source /usr/lib/procps/ptest/testsuite/kill.test/kill.exp"
    ("uplevel" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"uplevel #0 source /usr/lib/procps/ptest/testsuite/kill.test/kill.exp"
    invoked from within
"catch "uplevel #0 source $test_file_name" msg"
UNRESOLVED: testcase '/usr/lib/procps/ptest/testsuite/kill.test/kill.exp' aborted due to Tcl error

		=== kill Summary ===

# of expected passes		9
# of unexpected failures	1
# of unresolved testcases	1
/usr/lib/procps/ptest/src/kill version 4.0.6

ERROR: -------------------------------------------
ERROR: in testcase /usr/lib/procps/ptest/testsuite/kill.test/kill.exp
ERROR:  : spawn id exp17 not open
ERROR:  tcl error code NONE
ERROR:  tcl error info:
: spawn id exp17 not open
    while executing
"expect {
	-i $pipeproc_spawnid
        -re "$reg" { pass "$testname" }
        default { fail "$testname" }
		timeout { fail "$testname (timeout)" }
 ..."
    (procedure "expect_pipeproc_pass" line 4)
    invoked from within
"expect_pipeproc_pass "$test" "SIG SIGUSR2""
    (file "/usr/lib/procps/ptest/testsuite/kill.test/kill.exp" line 58)
    invoked from within
"source /usr/lib/procps/ptest/testsuite/kill.test/kill.exp"
    ("uplevel" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"uplevel #0 source /usr/lib/procps/ptest/testsuite/kill.test/kill.exp"
    invoked from within
"catch "uplevel #0 source $test_file_name" msg"
--------------------------------------------------
WARNING: Couldn't find the global config file.
WARNING: Couldn't find tool init file
Test run by root on Tue Apr 21 02:49:32 2026
Target is aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
Host   is aarch64-poky-linux-gnu
Build  is aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
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Full logs available at https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/20260420-131/testresults/qemuarm64-ptest/procps.log
Comment 1 Randy MacLeod 2026-04-23 14:52:31 UTC 
Let's see if it happens again.