Re: t/cindex.t "associate w/o search" test hangs for me

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 10:46:57PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > > I can't do +E because that's not available to me under CentOS7 (I can't wait
> > > until we move on, but just when we think the yak is fully shaved, we find more
> > > clumps of thick fur we hadn't considered). Is the output of the regular "lsof
> > > -p" helpful at all?
> > 
> > Sure.
> 
> Sent privately.

My, that's a lot of pipes...

I should've told you to try this debug patch earlier, but this
might help...  (and our test suite should really be able to
watch messages like this while capturing)

diff --git a/t/cindex.t b/t/cindex.t
index 60711492..e582acbf 100644
--- a/t/cindex.t
+++ b/t/cindex.t
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ EOM
 	my $cmd = [ qw(-cindex -u --all --associate -d), "$tmp/ext",
 		'-I', $basic->{inboxdir} ];
 	$cidx_out = $cidx_err = '';
-	ok(run_script($cmd, $env, $opt), 'associate w/o search');
+	ok(run_script($cmd, $env, undef), 'associate w/o search');
 	like($cidx_err, qr/W: \Q$basic->{inboxdir}\E not indexed for search/,
 		'non-Xapian-enabled inbox noted');
 }

The like() test will fail with the above change, of course; but
maybe something else is amiss on your system and showing stderr
will help.  FWIW, I can't reproduce the problem on my CentOS7 VM.