Thanks for the detailed investigation Christian. This is indeed a known issue with libreoffice on i386, and it's not just autopkgtests, libreoffice applications crash at startup in java code if a JVM is installed. It affects xenial and bionic, and is about to be resolved on bionic with the backport of openjdk 11 (see bug #1814133).
Until now we have gotten away with a hint to ignore the test failures, given that i386 is a small percentage of the user base, and a JVM isn't installed by default. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1699529 Title: i386 autopkgtests are unstable Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in libreoffice source package in Xenial: New Bug description: We had this before (maybe for a different reason). libreoffice's i386 autopkgtests are failing a lot of the time now. They are run when dependencies are uploaded, and so if they aren't reliable then they slow down the speed with which these updates can get into the release, because failures have to be manually retried. See: http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/libr/libreoffice/artful/i386 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1699529/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
