Investigate flaky test-module-loading-globalpaths with --worker on

[joyeecheung]

Reason: parallel/test-module-loading-globalpaths
Type: JS_TEST_FAILURE
Failed PR: 5 (#21857, #22209, #22020, #22152, #22212)
Appeared: test-packetnet-ubuntu1604-x64-2

In the latest 100 CI runs:
First CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/16260/
Last CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/16304/

All appeared in node-test-commit-custom-suites (with --worker on)

Example:

URL        https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-commit-custom-suites/default/581/console
Type       JS_TEST_FAILURE
Built On   test-packetnet-ubuntu1604-x64-2
Reason
  not ok 1267 parallel/test-module-loading-globalpaths
    ---
    duration_ms: 34.654
    severity: fail
    exitcode: 1
    stack: |-
      internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:583
          throw err;
          ^

      Error: Cannot find module 'foo'
          at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:581:15)
          at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:507:25)
          at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17)
          at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:20:18)
          at Object.<anonymous> (/home/iojs/build/workspace/node-test-commit-custom-suites@3/default/test/parallel/test-module-loading-globalpaths.js:15:15)
          at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:689:30)
          at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:700:10)
          at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:599:32)
          at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:538:12)
          at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:530:3)
      events.js:173
          throw err; // Unhandled 'error' event
          ^

      Error [ERR_UNHANDLED_ERROR]: Unhandled error. ({ Error: spawnSync /home/iojs/node-tmp/.tmp.1/install/bin/node ENOENT
          at Object.spawnSync (internal/child_process.js:982:20)
          at spawnSync (child_process.js:587:24)
          at Object.execFileSync (child_process.js:615:13)
          at Object.<anonymous> (/home/iojs/build/workspace/node-test-commit-custom-suites@3/default/test/parallel/test-module-loading-globalpaths.js:100:31)
          at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:689:30)
          at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:700:10)
          at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:599:32)
          at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:538:12)
          at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:530:3)
          at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:742:12)
        errno: 'ENOENT',
        code: 'ENOENT',
        syscall: 'spawnSync /home/iojs/node-tmp/.tmp.1/install/bin/node',
        path: '/home/iojs/node-tmp/.tmp.1/install/bin/node',
        spawnargs:
         [ '/home/iojs/build/workspace/node-test-commit-custom-suites@3/default/test/fixtures/test-module-loading-globalpaths/local-pkg/test.js' ],
        error: [Circular],
        status: null,
        signal: null,
        output: null,
        pid: 4777,
        stdout: null,
        stderr: null })
          at Worker.emit (events.js:171:17)
          at Worker.[kOnErrorMessage] (internal/worker.js:296:10)
          at Worker.[kOnMessage] (internal/worker.js:306:37)
          at MessagePort.Worker.(anonymous function).on (internal/worker.js:243:57)
          at MessagePort.emit (events.js:182:13)
          at MessagePort.onmessage (internal/worker.js:66:8)
    ...

[maclover7]

(edited the title to include the bit about --worker)

cc @addaleax

[addaleax]

Is this still happening? I didn’t manage to reproduce it so far :/

[Trott]

Unable to find this in the last 100 PR CI runs. Feel free to re-open if I'm wrong to close this, but given the length of time since it's been reported and the lack of activity and reproducibility, it seems like the right thing to do.