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.