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diff --git a/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
index 910cfa9..ac1b2a7 100644
--- a/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -300,6 +300,9 @@ class _TestProcess(BaseTestCase):
p.terminate()
if hasattr(signal, 'alarm'):
+ # On the Gentoo buildbot waitpid() often seems to block forever.
+ # We use alarm() to interrupt it if it blocks for too long, and
+ # then try to print a backtrace for the child process using gdb.
def handler(*args):
raise RuntimeError('join took too long: %s' % p)
old_handler = signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, handler)
@@ -307,6 +310,16 @@ class _TestProcess(BaseTestCase):
signal.alarm(10)
self.assertEqual(join(), None)
signal.alarm(0)
+ except RuntimeError:
+ print('os.waitpid() =', os.waitpid(p.pid, os.WNOHANG))
+ import subprocess
+ p = subprocess.Popen(['gdb', sys.executable, str(p.pid)],
+ stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
+ try:
+ p.communicate(b'bt 50', timeout=10)
+ except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
+ p.kill()
+ raise
finally:
signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, old_handler)
else: