In this [article][1] about completeness of semi-riemannian manifolds the author writes (in section 2.2) that it is unkown if the following statement holds: **A compact indefinite manifold which is conformal to a complete one is complete.** The author also gives a proof for the weaker statement: Let $g'=e^{\sigma}g$ be two conformal metrics. Then $g'$ is null complete if and only if $g$ is null complete. So the above statement holds if one replaces "complete" by "null complete": Since this article is from 1994, *I'm asking myself if there has been made any progress in proving (or disproving) the above statement since then*. I already looked through the publication list of the author and tried excessive googling. But I couldn't find anything. [1]: http://www.numdam.org/article/TSG_1994-1995__13__37_0.pdf