Dashboard test timeouts on macOS

[lassoan]

There is almost 0 test errors on Windows but tests seem to succeed then time out on mac.

http://trunk.cdash.org/viewTest.php?onlyfailed&buildid=2121372

Timeouts make build time really long and mask real errors.

I've run the dashboard tests on a Mac and it does not have this problem - it has only 13 failed tests, no timeouts (http://trunk.cdash.org/viewTest.php?onlyfailed&buildid=2122238).

Could somebody check what's happening on the factory machine?

[sjh26]

Sure, I will work on this

[lassoan]

There does not seem to be any extensions built for macOS, probably because of the timeouts. We rely on the nightly builds to deliver fixes and new features to collaborators. Windows and Linux builds are good, but people on macOS not getting extensions is a problem.

Local mac builds are fine, so I don't know what could go wrong on the factory machine. Let me know if I can help with this in any way.

[sjh26]

I am going to try transferring the build to a different machine temporarily to try to sort out the problem. I can also disable mac tests for tomorrow to make sure the build goes through.

[lassoan]

Thank you!

Can you have a look at the screen of the macOS factory while running the tests? Maybe it could give some hints about why the timeout happens (e.g.,. it could be a popup with some informative message).

[sjh26]

I will try that tomorrow after the nightly finishes. The factory mac is also getting quite old, and may be having idiosyncratic issues.

I have disabled testing for now on the mac, and will be working on running down the specific issue.

[lassoan]

Great, thank you.

[sjh26]

Extensions still are not coming up, didn't disable tests properly. Working on getting them up today.

[sjh26]

However, the tests are running perfectly fine (no error messages, etc), at least while I am connected to the VNC server.

[lassoan]

Build of Slicer core and extensions work great on all 3 platforms now, thank you!

MacOS tests still take way too long (test report has not appeared yet on the dashboard, probably still lots of tests timing out).

[sjh26]

Tests have been disabled until I sort out the timing out problem.