ci: report step timeouts explicitly, and skip the test that was hitting them

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Description

Two related CI fixes.

Report step timeouts. A step killed by timeout was reported identically to a test failure, with no indication a time limit was hit. timeout 30m cmd || FAILED_STEPS+=(label) discards the exit code, and the kill also stops the runner script from reporting, so no JUnit XML is finalized and nightly_report.py — which classifies purely from XML — sees nothing. The only evidence was the gap between step timestamps.

Adds run_step_with_timeout(), which captures the exit code and on 124 reports that the step did not finish within its limit, labels it (TIMEOUT after <limit>), and writes a STEP_TIMEOUT JUnit marker. The message points at the two actionable outcomes: raise the limit, or investigate the slow test. Non-timeout failures keep their previous behaviour. All eight timeout call sites across the four test scripts use it.

Also raises the pytest cuopt limit from 30m to 45m for the conda and wheel paths. Other steps keep their existing limits.

Skip the test that was consuming the limit. test_lp_solver.py::test_parser_and_batch_solver intermittently hangs inside LP BatchSolve on CUDA 13.3 and never returns, so the outer timeout kills the whole pytest run and every other test in it. Seen on amd64 rtxpro6000 (3 of 4 runs) and arm64 l4; not seen on 13.0.3 or 12.x. It is not caused by any one PR — it reproduces on a branch that changes only ci/*.sh.

xfail does not work: the test never returns, so pytest cannot observe a failure. Skipping is the only way to keep the rest of the suite running.

Tracked in #1781, which carries the faulthandler stack that identified it and what has been ruled out.

Note the 45m bump does not fix the hang — 30m and 45m both end at 140/142 tests. It is there so genuinely slow runs under contention have headroom, not to accommodate the hang.

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Walkthrough

CI test scripts now use run_step_with_timeout. The shared helper records failures, reports timeout details, and writes JUnit timeout markers. Cuopt Python test timeouts increase from 30 to 45 minutes. An intermittently hanging LP test is skipped on CUDA 13.3.

Changes

CI timeout handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared timeout helpers ci/utils/crash_helpers.sh	Adds write_pytest_timeout_marker and run_step_with_timeout for timeout execution, failure tracking, diagnostics, and JUnit marker generation.
CI test integration ci/test_python.sh, ci/test_wheel_cuopt.sh, ci/test_wheel_cuopt_server.sh, ci/test_cpp.sh	Routes CLI, Python, server, skills-assets, and C++ tests through the shared helper while preserving test options and reports. Python timeouts increase from 30 to 45 minutes.
LP test handling python/cuopt/cuopt/tests/linear_programming/test_lp_solver.py	Skips test_parser_and_batch_solver on CUDA 13.3 because it can hang intermittently.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to d8cb2

The PR adds explicit timeout reporting and skips a test that can hang the suite. The remaining concern is limited to reduced coverage outside CUDA 13.3, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Suggested reviewers: tmckayus, jameslamb

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In `@python/cuopt/cuopt/tests/linear_programming/test_lp_solver.py`:
- Around line 579-583: Replace the unconditional pytest.mark.skip on the
affected LP BatchSolve test with a conditional skip that applies only when the
runtime CUDA version is 13.3, preserving execution and coverage on CUDA 12.9 and
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HIGH: Limit the skip to CUDA 13.3.

pytest.mark.skip disables this test in every environment. The CI matrix also runs CUDA 12.9, so that job loses coverage for parser and BatchSolve regressions even though the documented failure is specific to CUDA 13.3. Use a conditional skip or test-selection rule that skips only CUDA 13.3.

As per path instructions, this is a test-quality finding because the unconditional skip creates a real coverage regression.

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In `@python/cuopt/cuopt/tests/linear_programming/test_lp_solver.py` around lines
579 - 583, Replace the unconditional pytest.mark.skip on the affected LP
BatchSolve test with a conditional skip that applies only when the runtime CUDA
version is 13.3, preserving execution and coverage on CUDA 12.9 and other
environments.

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