Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.427 (Entity 5.427) RT-Send-CC: X-RT-Original-Encoding: iso-8859-1 Content-Length: 879 t_iprop.py also hangs in this version of macOS with SIP enabled, right after starting the first kpropd process and waiting for sync: *** [20] Started with pid 32658 *** Waiting for sync from kpropd kpropd: Incremental propagation enabled kpropd: waiting for a kprop connection kpropd: Initializing kadm5 as client kiprop/localhost@KRBTEST.COM kpropd: kadm5 initialization succeeded kpropd: Calling iprop_get_updates_1 (sno=1 sec=1502837269 usec=765479) kpropd: Full resync needed kpropd: Full resync request granted kpropd: Waiting for 600 seconds before checking for updates again A possible theory is that the listener child is unable to signal its parent that the dump completed. Most likely we will need to find a way to detect this restriction and skip t_iprop.py if it is in force, since rearchitecting kpropd and its tests not to use signals would be a tall order.