[no response since Monday, adding [email protected]] On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 04:54:01PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Looking at: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=openvswitch&arch=ia64&ver=1.4.2%2Bgit20120612-4&stamp=1342474173 > and scrolling down, I see: > > ## ---------------------- ## > ## Detailed failed tests. ## > ## ---------------------- ## > > # -*- compilation -*- > 324. json.at:329: testing input may not be empty ... > ../../tests/json.at:331: test-json /dev/null > --- - 2012-07-16 21:26:10.144150241 +0000 > +++ > /build/buildd-openvswitch_1.4.2+git20120612-4-ia64-gP4sNv/openvswitch-1.4.2+git20120612/_debian/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/324/stdout > 2012-07-16 21:26:10.000000000 +0000 > @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ > -error: line 0, column 0, byte 0: empty input stream > +error: line 1, column 0, byte 3: syntax error at beginning of input > > 324. json.at:329: 324. input may not be empty (json.at:329): FAILED > (json.at:331) > > This implies that /dev/null isn't empty, because the "test-json" > program was able to read at least 3 bytes from it. That can easily > happen in a chroot if someone forgets to "mknod /dev/null c 1 3" and > later someone writes data to /dev/null as root. Any chance this > happened? > > (I'd be more inclined to blame the upload itself except that -3 built > successfully everywhere, -4 is building successfully everywhere other > than ia64, and the only change between -3 and -4 was deleting a couple > of lines from a file not used in the unit tests.) > > Thanks, > > Ben.
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