Hi, On Tue, 2026-03-24 at 21:51 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Source: dracut > Severity: serious > Justification: blocks other packages from migrating > > Dear Maintainer(s), > > The dracut autopkgtests on ppc64el are flaky, and many runs fail: > > https://ci.debian.net/packages/d/dracut/testing/ppc64el/ > > What's worse is that each run is ~7 hours, so it takes a full day just > for a couple retries. This blocks other packages from migrating. > > If this is not possible to fix, please consider disabling autopkgtest > on ppc64el, or marking the test suite as flaky. Thanks.
I spent a lot of time to address the flakyness of the dracut tests (races, timeouts, etc). The flakyness should be fixed in dracut 110-7 (there is one more timeout fix for test 41 in 110-8). There are three test failures of 110-7: 1) 72-nbd: kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/include/asm/interrupt.h:355 2) 70-iscsi: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 69122 op 0x0:(READ) 3) 71-iscsi-multi: timed out (last log line: "Run /init as init process") So failure 1 and 2 look like kernel related. Failure 3 does not look like dracut being the culprit. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
