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FreeRangeTux

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Registered: 2023-03-25

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Phoronix grep error/hangs on egrep

Good day fellow Arch users I have a strange error popping up when trying to run any benchmark in PTS.  The error is telling me that I egrep is obsolete and that the suite is using grep -E instead then it hangs and the process stops.

[matt@Tuesday ~]$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark cyberpunk2077

    Evaluating External Test Dependencies ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................

Phoronix Test Suite v10.8.4

    To Install:    pts/cyberpunk2077-1.0.1

    Determining File Requirements .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    Searching Download Caches ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    1 Test To Install
        1 File To Download [0.02MB]
        4MB Of Disk Space Is Needed
        28 Seconds Estimated Install Time

    pts/cyberpunk2077-1.0.1:
        Test Installation 1 of 1
        1 File Needed [0.02 MB]
        This test may depend upon third-party/commercial retail software.
        Downloading: cyperpunk2077-settings-1.zip                                                                                                                                                                                                [0.02MB]
        Downloading .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
        Approximate Install Size: 4 MB
        Estimated Install Time: 28 Seconds
        Installing Test @ 15:30:21

        [NOTICE] This test will attempt to install the necessary game using your Steam account. If the test appears hung you may need to manually exit the Steam client.
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
^C

Last edited by FreeRangeTux (2023-03-25 17:40:19)

V1del

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Re: Phoronix grep error/hangs on egrep

Please use [ code ] [ /code ] tags without spaces for posting outputs.

That message does not lead to a hang, have you taken heed of the notice literally above it? You probably want in any case report a bug to the phoronix test suite that they should adjust their grep usage.

Last edited by V1del (2023-03-25 16:12:20)

FreeRangeTux

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Re: Phoronix grep error/hangs on egrep

Yes I have and while I followed this advise the result is the same no matter the benchmark I try to run.  As it seems Steam is not the source of the problem.

V1del

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Re: Phoronix grep error/hangs on egrep

Neither is that message, and if it was it would be a phoronix bug, what exactly should be happening? Run it through strace, check where it hangs and why.

FreeRangeTux

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Re: Phoronix grep error/hangs on egrep

Neither is that message, and if it was it would be a phoronix bug, what exactly should be happening? Run it through strace, check where it hangs and why.

I tried strace and it won't complete as the benchmark won't complete.  As for what it is supposed to be doing it should be running various benchmarking functions.

V1del

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Re: Phoronix grep error/hangs on egrep

where does it hang in  strace? Post the output in doubt https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

seth

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Re: Phoronix grep error/hangs on egrep

nb. that since the moronix testsuite invoke egrep you can infer it's some sort of script and therefore you'll have to strace -f or -ff and the output is probably gonna be massive and as the code hangs you cannot feed it into 0x0.st directly and the problem is steam what you can likely also show by "set -x" at the head of the moronix script to log the script execution.

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