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Package: autopkgtest
Version: 5.38
Severity: normal
Hi,
This bug is mostly to document and track an issue that has been annoying
me for a long time already. On ci.d.n we have reject_listed [0] several
packages because they tmpfail instead of failing. This points at
autopkgtest not being able to handle the situation as I think it should.
Examples where I just verified this is the case:
* llvm-toolchain-11 on armhf in bullseye [1] as reported in bug #980957
* llvm-toolchain-13 on armhf in bullseye [2] as reported in bug #980957
Examples where the reject_list mentions tmpfails:
* libreoffice on armel
* linux (qemu) on stable and oldstable
* openjdk-8
* openjdk-11 (I verified it no longer tmpfails on unstable, maybe
oldstable is OK too, but I didn't check)
* openjdk-21 on armel and riscv64
* openjdk-22 on riscv64
* openjdk-23 on armel, loong64 and riscv64
I recall that most of those openjdk-* failures actually happen during
cleanup where the `rm` complains that the /tmp/$some-autopkgtest-dir
directory isn't empty. That appears a race condition to me, where
cleanup starts before the tests really have stopped writing to files
after being killed. I wonder if retrying the removal at least once isn't
going to go a long way to solve that particular issue.
Paul
[0] https://ci.debian.net/status/reject_list/
[1]
https://ci.debian.net/packages/l/llvm-toolchain-11/oldstable/armhf/50087518/
156s clang-$VERSION -flto foo.c -o foo
156s clang: error: unable to execute command: Segmentation fault
156s clang: error: linker command failed due to signal (use -v to see
invocation)
161s autopkgtest [08:22:06]: ERROR: testbed failure: testbed auxverb
failed with exit code 254
[2]
https://ci.debian.net/packages/l/llvm-toolchain-13/oldstable/armhf/50087616/
151s clang-$VERSION -flto foo.c -o foo
151s clang: error: unable to execute command: Segmentation fault
151s clang: error: linker command failed due to signal (use -v to see
invocation)
156s autopkgtest [09:03:07]: ERROR: testbed failure: testbed auxverb
failed with exit code 254
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Source: autopkgtest
Source-Version: 6.0
Done: Paride Legovini <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
autopkgtest, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:28:29 +0200
Source: autopkgtest
Architecture: source
Version: 6.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian CI team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Paride Legovini <[email protected]>
Closes: 1078514 1080984 1136471
Changes:
autopkgtest (6.0) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Paride Legovini ]
* Always revert testbed before running individual tests
* d/control: bump Standards-Version to 4.7.3, no changes needed
* d/control: drop redundant Priority: optional field
* d/s/lintian-overrides: with #1118442 now fixed, drop unused override
* d/t/unshare: replace skip-not-installable with runtime check
* d/t/lxc: run on Debian stable instead of testing to workaround #1125011
* Move gathering of testbed CPU info from setup to open stage
* build-lxd: rename "container" to "instance"
* build-lxd: allow specifying the temp instance name from the environment
* build-lxd: make temporary instance cleanup more reliable
* build-lxd: extend the cleanup trap to cover HUP and TERM
* build-lxd: get image arch from lxd/incus metadata
* build-lxd: fix snapd removal
* build-lxd: add quirks to build images for older Ubuntu releases
* lxd: increase various timeouts to help emulated testbeds
* lxd: when executing commands, pass --disable-stdin when possible
* lxd auxverb: execute commands with --force-noninteractive
* setup-testbed: drop Ubuntu specific kernel install
* Update apt index when a foreign architecture is added.
Thanks to Alessandro Astone
* doc: drop wrong paragraph on how test deps on foreign-arch tests
* d/t/control: depend on procps for NullRunner tests (Closes: #1136471)
* autopkgtest: do not fail on failure to remove testbed tmp dirs
(Closes: #1078514)
* testbed: raise TestbedFailure only on actual testbed failure
* d/README.source: update target host dependencies (Closes: #1080984)
* a-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud: do not use minimal images
* CI: run tests on bullseye instead of bookworm
* pre-commit: add pyupgrade hook (compat level: Python 3.11+)
* Apply pyupgrade (compat level: Python 3.11+, per d/README.source)
.
[ Graham Inggs ]
* doc: explain a common mistake in the architecture field
.
[ Antonio Terceiro ]
* autopkgtest-virt-lxd: ignore stderr from `[...] image info`
* autopkgtest-virt-unshare: document that --bind can also take files
.
[ Wesley Hershberger ]
* lxd/incus: Use image from the same remote
* lxd/incus: Pass --project to all client invocations
* lxd/incus: Probe for current project & remote
* lxd/incus: Use "instance" instead of "container" in the manpage
.
[ Arnaud Rebillout ]
* build-lxd: Fix image reference in man page
.
[ Raphaël Hertzog ]
* Update the lxd/incus examples in the manual page
.
[ Ural Tunaboyu ]
* autopkgtest-virt-lxd: add --name option
* autopkgtest-virt-lxd: add --delete-existing option
.
[ Benjamin Drung ]
* refactor: add bind_mount function to unshare-helper
* Support bind mounting files
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[ Jochen Sprickerhof ]
* unshare-helper: ignore bind mount failures
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