Source: ostree Version: 2016.5-4 Severity: important Tags: help [X-Debbugs-Cc set to [email protected], please include them in follow-ups.]
ostree failed to build on the mipsel buildd eberlin.debian.org: <https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ostree&arch=mipsel&ver=2016.5-4&stamp=1465952501> I'm reporting this as important rather than serious because it seems to be hard to reproduce, so I suspect a rebuild would probably be fine, but it probably points to an underlying problem in either ostree or the mipsel toolchain/machine. I'm trying to reproduce this failure on the porterbox etler.debian.org by rebuilding the package or by using the installed-tests from 2016.5-3. One of the changes I made in 2016.5-4 was to repeat the tests 4 times if they fail the first time, so we can see how reproducible things are. In the failing build on eberlin, the results were: tests/test-pull-archive-z.sh (1/5, 5/5): ostree command-line tool killed by signal 10, which I think is SIGBUS, during "ostree pull" tests/test-pull-large-metadata.sh (1/5): ostree command-line tool killed by SIGBUS with no output, again during "ostree pull" tests/test-oldstyle-partial.sh (1/5): ostree command-line tool killed by SIGSEGV, again during "ostree pull" tests/test-pull-metalink.sh (2/5): another SIGBUS during "ostree pull" tests/test-pull-resume.sh (3/5, 4/5): SIGBUS during "ostree pull" tests/test-admin-upgrade-not-backwards.sh (4/5): another SIGBUS during "ostree pull" tests/test-pull-depth.sh (5/5): another SIGBUS during "ostree pull" If ostree's tests are reliable on architectures other than mipsel and we can't reproduce the failure in an environment where stack traces are available, I would prefer to exclude it from being built on mipsel rather than ignore test failures, but I'm willing to be persuaded otherwise. Any porter advice or help welcome. ostree has a standard Autotools "make check", and GNOME-style installed-tests (mostly the same code) wrapped in autopkgtest; if you haven't encountered those before, the tl;dr version is that you install gnome-desktop-testing and ostree-tests, then run "gnome-desktop-testing-runner ostree", or read the underlying shell command-lines out of the .desktop-style files in /usr/share/installed-tests/ostree). Thanks, S
