[Python-Dev] "make test" routinely fails to terminate

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 19 May 2018 17:41:18 -0500
Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On the 3.7 branch, "make test" routinely fails to terminate. (Pretty
> vanilla Ubuntu 17.10 running on a Dell Laptop. Nothing esoteric at all)
> Lately, it's been one of the multiprocessing tests. After a long while
> (~2000 seconds), I kill it, then it complains many times about lack of a
> valid_signals attribute in the signal module:

Can you try to rebuild Python?  Use "make distclean" if that helps.

Regards

Antoine.