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test-runner-watch-mode is flaky #49605
Description
| Reason | parallel/test-runner-watch-mode |
|---|---|
| Type | JS_TEST_FAILURE |
| Failed PR | 5 (#49419, #49559, #49565, #49575, #49582) |
| Appeared | test-osuosl-ubuntu2004_container-armv7l-1, test-digitalocean-ubuntu1804_sharedlibs_container-x64-2 |
| First CI | https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/53812/ |
| Last CI | https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/53856/ |
Example
not ok 2874 parallel/test-runner-watch-mode
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duration_ms: 360086.13100
severity: fail
exitcode: -15
stack: |-
timeout
TAP version 13
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# Subtest: test runner watch mode
# Subtest: should run tests repeatedly
ok 1 - should run tests repeatedly
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duration_ms: 1301.051293
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Refs: nodejs/reliability#662
From the full log it looks like something is quite wrong in the test, it keeps getting stuck at tons of Updating /home/iojs/node-tmp/.tmp.2479/dependency.js until the 2 minute timeout is reached (my guess is it has more to do with how the test is written)
Activity
joyeecheung commentedon Sep 11, 2023
cc @nodejs/test_runner
MoLow commentedon Sep 11, 2023
is anyone able to reproduce with
tools/test.py --repeat=1000 test/parallel/test-runner-watch-mode.mjs? on my machine it passes smoothlyaduh95 commentedon Sep 11, 2023
joyeecheung commentedon Sep 11, 2023
The flakes in the CI only show up in Linux ARM and Linux + shared library. I am guessing using a similar setup may help reproducing the issues. Or you can try using the the CI boxes.
joyeecheung commentedon Sep 11, 2023
Looks like this also comes up to people running Ubuntu 22.04 locally too #49513
test: mark test-runner-watch-mode as flaky
test: mark test-runner-watch-mode as flaky
test: mark test-runner-watch-mode as flaky
test: mark test-runner-watch-mode as flaky
test: mark test-runner-watch-mode as flaky
aduh95 commentedon Aug 15, 2024
Happened again on https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-commit-linuxone/45127/nodes=rhel8-s390x/
test: move test-runner-watch-mode helper into common
3 remaining items
test: move test-runner-watch-mode helper into common
test: split test-runner-watch-mode
test: move test-runner-watch-mode helper into common
test: split test-runner-watch-mode
github-actions commentedon May 28, 2026
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github-actions commentedon Jun 28, 2026
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inoway46 commentedon Sep 14, 2026
This still seems to be flaky. Recent failures are hitting
should support a watched test file renamewithENOENTfromrenameSync().panva commentedon Sep 15, 2026
This is indeed resolved, the flakes are on the 22.x backport or daily v22.x CI runs. And the reports are inaccurate see nodejs/node-core-utils#1191.