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[windows][ci][electron] Occasional electron-mocha test failure on the Windows CI #2586
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I see (what I assume is) the same problem simply running Theia on Windows:
It seems to happen randomly about 10-20% of the time. The rest of the time everything starts fine:
On initial investigation, the cause of the error is obfuscated by a |
BTW Issue #2710 seems related too, I haven't updated to the code containing the fix yet, but the startup time is very quick so I don't think I am seeing the timeout. |
Ok so I tried to give a look at this issue, and turns out that it has to do with the way the backend is started in the test using Because we use the Issues:
Now, why does everything fail with the following message?
It is because when the worker is started by re-running the test command, the You can note that the error comes from Long story short, it is a pain. I will keep trying things and push it to a branch (cannot guaranty a PR...), but how about temporally removing this flaky test and make AppVeyor less likely to fail for no reason? @kittaakos |
The issue also happens on Ubuntu by the way, but for some reason it doesn't fail the tests on this platform. |
I have seen this couple of times before. Restarting the build with the same commit hash fixes the issue. Perhaps, this is a timing issue.
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