Tests hang from dotnet test

[JamesNK]

Steps to reproduce

Tests run on travis CI via dotnet test now intermittently fail. Failures started after updating to a newer .NET Core SDK. It appears that the test tool increased from 16.0.1 to 16.1.1 with the new SDK.

Source code: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-dotnet/commits/master

Expected behavior

Tests run and exit

Actual behavior

Tests hang and the build is terminated

Diagnostic logs

Failure: https://travis-ci.org/grpc/grpc-dotnet/builds/551562232?utm_source=github_status&utm_medium=notification
Microsoft (R) Test Execution Command Line Tool Version 16.1.1

Success: https://travis-ci.org/grpc/grpc-dotnet/builds/551058627?utm_source=github_status&utm_medium=notification
Microsoft (R) Test Execution Command Line Tool Version 16.0.1

[mayankbansal018]

@JamesNK , if this is an intermediate issue, can you please enable diagnostics logs for testplatform & share those with us https://github.com/Microsoft/vstest-docs/blob/master/docs/diagnose.md

[JamesNK]

I can't easily get logs off the build server but I can repo freezing on my dev machine with this. It freezes all the time within 5 minutes:

while($true) { dotnet test --diag:log.txt }

testlogs.zip

[JamesNK]

This is an ongoing problem. I'd like to make some progress on fixing it.

Do you need anymore information from me?

[mayankbansal018]

@JamesNK I went through the logs & from the logs I didn't see any hang state. The only interesting thing I observed was that it seemed we start 10 different testhost processes in sequence, but you have shared logs for 30 testhost process. Can you please share how many test dlls are you running ?

[JamesNK]

Because I'm doing it in a loop: while($true) { dotnet test --diag:log.txt }

In the example of the logs I attached it freezes after 3 runs.

Have you tried reproing it?

[mayankbansal018]

I'm looking into it, I've cloned the repo, & all I need to do is run dotnet on sln right?

[mayankbansal018]

I tried it locally multiple times, but it did not repro for me.

[tasadar2]

We are currently experiencing the same issue. We have been using mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/sdk:2.2.204 to avoid the performance degradation issue which is now resolved. But when attempting the latest mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/sdk, currently b4c25c26dc73f498073fcdb4aefe167793eb3a8c79effa76df768006b5c345b8, only a couple test runs finish while the rest seem to hang.
As with the performance issue, it seems to be related to non-interactive hosts.

Situation

• Our solution contains 10 test projects, each one has <IsTestProject>true</IsTestProject> set, and we are running dotnet test against the solution in a CircleCI environment.
• When each test is run individually, everything works as intended.
• When run locally, i see only 4 tests run at any time. And the local system only has 4 cpu cores.

Replication
I condensed our project to share an example. Each test project has a single test that sleeps for 5sec.
Repo: https://github.com/tasadar2/vstest-issue-2080
CircleCI: https://circleci.com/gh/tasadar2/vstest-issue-2080/3

It doesn't always replicate the issue, but often does.

[JamesNK]

Running test projects individually has fixed this problem for us - grpc/grpc-dotnet@152255e

[singhsarab]

@tasadar2 @JamesNK sdk:2.2.301 has a fix, can you please check if you are still hitting the issue ?

[tasadar2]

Still appears to be an issue.
image: mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/sdk@sha256:a50e175acd618c3e90bc91dceb5194e6c3764c5b4d179390cef874a887476ba9
example: https://circleci.com/gh/tasadar2/vstest-issue-2080/7

[JamesNK]

I've narrowed down my hanging issue. It is caused by something with how vstest writes to the console. If no tests fail then vstest completes without any problems. If a test fails then vstest hangs until the CI build times out (this is in Travis CI)

The workaround I am using is to write the test output to a text file, and the write the text file to console. If I do that then it never hangs.

[singhsarab]

@JamesNK What is the dotnet sdk version you are using ? Can you share the link to the CI ?

[JamesNK]

3.0.100-preview8-013532

https://travis-ci.org/grpc/grpc-dotnet/builds/565363470?utm_source=github_status&utm_medium=notification

[tasadar2]

Looks like this is still an issue on the recent 3.0.
image: mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/sdk@sha256:3afea8958440231a77b3daea267951cc8ba9026fc1015bcbccc206d6f1d031f7
example: https://app.circleci.com/jobs/github/tasadar2/vstest-issue-2080/10

[singhsarab]

@tasadar2 Can you please try to use --logger:console;noprogress=true argument and check the issue reproduces for you ?

[tasadar2]

That arg produces the same results, https://app.circleci.com/jobs/github/tasadar2/vstest-issue-2080/11

[tasadar2]

Though, when quoting the argument value, that seems to work --logger:"console;noprogress=true"
https://app.circleci.com/jobs/github/tasadar2/vstest-issue-2080/14

[NicolasDorier]

I had the same problem, two workaround worked:

Adding --logger:"console;noprogress=true" like @tasadar2

However, I did not like it because I could not see the progress (--logger:"console" has same issue), so instead added < /dev/null

dotnet test .... < /dev/null

This allow me to see the progress of tests, without hanging.

[NicolasDorier]

Full logs of a successful build with feedback https://circleci.com/gh/dgarage/NBXplorer/430 before the hack you can see things stalling https://circleci.com/gh/dgarage/NBXplorer/409

Happening on mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/sdk:3.0.100
xUnit.net VSTest Adapter v2.4.1 (64-bit .NET Core 3.0.0)

[dhilst]

I had this problem with a small vm (2 cores, 2GB ram), increasing to 8cores and 8gb ram make it work. I read at some place that this was thread related so I came up with the more cores idea. The < /dev/null workaround didn't help in my case.

[diegosasw]

Not sure if it's related. I'm also a GitLab user and found a very similar problem so I suspect it's probably related to the SDK image, but in my case happens with Microsoft (R) Test Execution Command Line Tool Version 16.9.1 and the workaround didn't work for me.
https://forum.gitlab.com/t/dotnet-test-hangs-in-gitlab-gitlab-runner-13-9-0-rc2/50977

I have also checked whether it has anything to do with async calls in case there is a deadlock, but I seem to be awaiting properly everywhere.

[diegosasw]

Out of curiosity, is anybody experiencing this only when using IHostedService? In my case it seems that's what causing the tests to freeze within a linux image and disabling parallelization avoids the deadlock.

[tremblaysimon]

@diegosasw, for me it's happening when using dotnet test on a solution file even if there is no IHostedService usage.

[victor-fialkin-deltatre]

This helped us in case of IHostedService:
https://www.strathweb.com/2021/05/the-curious-case-of-asp-net-core-integration-test-deadlock/

[gdoron]

@Evangelink @davidfowl Even on our very powerful Macbook pros, when we are running one of our integration test projects that has hundreds of tests, many of which use WebApplicationFactory we often get into deadlocks.

We set xunit to use unlimited amount of threads (-1), we have overridden a bunch of xunit stuff to implement a semaphore to limit the number of concurrent tests.
And yet, often we get into deadlocks after the ~600 tests completed mark.
After verifying we have no sync-over-async, we found this beauty in asp.net core code itself...

https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/blob/main/src/Hosting/TestHost/src/TestServer.cs#L101

Can this be the root cause for all our deadlocks only in Unit tests problems?

[gdoron]

Finally! I managed to reproduce it in a small test project, where I can do dotnet-dump and attach to process without everything crashing.

I found this fella in one of the threads' callstack.

And going up the callstack we can see it's inside (or trying to get inside and the debugger is misleading) a lock block of NLog.

[davidfowl]

Can you file this issue on dotnet/aspnet

[gdoron]

Your request is my command: dotnet/aspnetcore#43353

[JBoothUA]

just in case this helps someone, at a random time this line started randomly hanging our tests

_task = Task.Factory.StartNew(async () =>
{
await Task.Delay((int)cleanInterval.TotalMilliseconds, _cancellationTokenSource.Token);
--> while (!_cancellationTokenSource.Token.IsCancellationRequested)

[Evangelink]

@cvpoienaru Please investigate this issue.

[Piedone]

Did anything happen in the investigation by chance?

[diegosasw]

I am experiencing the same when using TestServer.
It works well locally, when running in GitLab runner, it hangs.
I've noticed it gets frozen when trying to dispose TestServer because the disposing of IWebHost hangs.
No exceptions thrown.

I've tried to stop all the IHostedService in case that's the problem, but still unable to dispose TestServer to see if that solves the problem.

Could I know how are you troubleshooting this? The only workaround i have is to set

#if DEBUG
[assembly: CollectionBehavior(CollectionBehavior.CollectionPerClass, DisableTestParallelization = false)]
#else
[assembly: CollectionBehavior(CollectionBehavior.CollectionPerClass, DisableTestParallelization = true)]
#endif

in the test assembly, so that it runs sequentially in CI/CD pipeline.

[nohwnd]

@cvpoienaru Please investigate this issue.

[psoladoye]

This issue is still unresolved.

[nohwnd]

This issue is a mix of different problems, some related to other products, but I did not find a clear repro. If someone is still experiencing this problem and has a simple repro, please file a new issue.