Travis CI R package oldrel error: no output received in the last 10 minutes

Question

I recently hooked up a github repo containing an R package to Travis CI. The package is building fine with current release (release) and development release (devel) of R, but gives an error with the old release (oldrel, i.e., R version 3.2.5).

The build does not throw an error but terminate with the following message:

No output has been received in the last 10m0s, this potentially indicates
a stalled build or something wrong with the build itself.

The build has been terminated

The latest builds can be found there: https://travis-ci.org/lnalborczyk/ESTER

And my .travis.yml file is:

language: R
sudo: false
cache: packages
r:
- oldrel
- release
- devel

Does someone know what might be the origin of this problem and whether this behaviour would be problematic in the perspective of a submission to the CRAN ?

EDIT

I know that travis_wait would allow to extend the length of the building time but it does not explain why the package is actually building fine (in ~5mn) on current and development releases while not building on the old release of R (cf. my comment below).

Answer 1

You're looking for travis_wait

You can make travis wait on no-output builds for up to the max runtime (50 minutes)