On 14/05/2020 22:20, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 09:46:38PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: >> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 09:41:51PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: >>> /usr/src/apt/apt-1.0.9.8.6/test/integration/../../build/bin/testdeb >>> test.deb … >>> W: Unknown TAR header type 88 >>> +E: Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) >>> FAIL >>> >>> or >>> +E: Sub-process gzip received signal 2. >>> FAIL >>> >>> Is this expected? >> Yes! It's probably just gzip SIGPIPING, but it does not matter to >> the test at hand. Given that the test suite is next to impossible >> to run (it timed out after 90 minutes on salsa, I cancelled it >> after like an hour on the laptop), I did not bother investigating >> further whether its a persistent issue or not. [1] >> >> We got the W: we were looking for, so all is good. > Oh, tianon pointed out that running with low ulimit -n makes it > fast, so now I got the test suite running quickly and passing in > git by changing the test to just grep for the "W: Unknown TAR header type 88" > message. > > Sorry for the confusion this caused, I didn't expect anyone > to rerun the tests :)
Thanks a lot for the info! Cheers! Sylvain
