Bug#990818: rtags: flaky autopkgtest: regularly times out after 2:47 h

[Denis Danilov <danilovdenis@yandex.ru>]

Hi Paul,

> a regression, I looked into the history of your autopkgtest [1] and I
> noticed it fails regularly on ppc64el (and I spotted a similar failure
> on i386). I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report. It
> hits the autopkgtest time out after 2hours and 47 minutes. Successful
> runs pass in a couple of minutes.

indeed, there are sporadic failures, mostly on ppc64el, but also on amd64.

> tests/automated/test_misc.py::test_output[PrintIncludePathOutput]
> autopkgtest [04:05:18]: ERROR: timed out on command "su -s /bin/bash

they all fail (by timeout) on the same test "PrintIncludePathOutput".
I will try to check and debug corresponding code in rtags daemon/client.

Denis