[racket-dev] TR tests sometimes fail with a promise error

This is a long-standing intermittent bug somewhere in {DrDr, promises,
rackunit, TR's use of rackunit} that no one has, to my knowledge, made
any progress in tracking down.

Perhaps the thread is being killed by DrDr at some point, although I
have reproduced it at the command line.

Sam

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Eric Dobson <eric.n.dobson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sometimes TR tests fail with the error
>
> force: promise's thread terminated without result or exception
>
>   promise: #<promise:!running!...et/optimizer/run.rkt:47:28>
>
>   context...:
>
>    /opt/plt/builds/<current-rev>/trunk/collects/racket/promise.rkt:98:2
>
>    /opt/plt/builds/<current-rev>/trunk/collects/tests/typed-racket/optimizer/run.rkt:50:3:
> for-loop
>
>    /opt/plt/builds/<current-rev>/trunk/collects/tests/typed-racket/optimizer/run.rkt:44:0:
> mk-suite
>
> How can this happen? Is the thread getting killed? Also since this
> error doesn't have blame information I don't know if this is an
> internal promise error or if TR is misusing the promise library.
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