On 11 August 2017 at 09:51, David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 01:47:03PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 9 August 2017 at 08:03, David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote: >> > I haven't completed a Travis build for this, which is part of my usual >> > test regime, since the first dozen or so Travis builds are failing >> > more often than not on master as well. I don't know why this is - >> > seems to be failing some of the x86 tests. >> >> Doesn't look much worse than usual to me -- of the last 24 travis >> builds for master 4 failed and 20 passed. > > Uh.. that's not been my experience. I was a bit unclear in my > description, though. Until maybe a week and a half ago I found the > Travis build was fairly reliable, though there were occasional > transien failures. Now, essentially every Travis build is failing for > me. Specifically most of the first dozen or so of the batch of build > configurations on Travis fail (that's "X" not "!"). These seem to be > transient failures in the sense that if I rebuild enough times they'll > eventually pass, but unlike earlier when the builds would suceed most > of the time, they now seem to succeed at best around 1/3 of the time > (that's ~1/3 of the time for each configuration sub-build, so with a > dozen or so apparently affected that means a complete passing build > essentially never). > > See for example https://travis-ci.org/dgibson/qemu/builds/263312174 > where 5 subbuilds have failed (which is relatively few). In each case > the failing error seems to be something like: > > ERROR:tests/vhost-user-test.c:807:test_connect_fail: child process > (/i386/vhost-user/connect-fail/subprocess [55883]) failed unexpectedly > > Seems to be i386 in some cases and x86_64 in others.
Weird. https://travis-ci.org/qemu/qemu/builds is the master build history and as you can see it's mostly greens. Not sure why your setup would be significantly worse: maybe one of the travis submaintainers has an idea. It could just be our vhost-user-test is flaky but I don't know why that should hit you much more than master... thanks -- PMM
