Bug#918520: libfiu: FTBFS randomly when built with eatmydata

2019-05-13 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
Hey! On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 08:18:25PM +1000, Stewart Smith wrote: > Have I sneakily tried to make you maintainer yet? :) one day somebody > will fall for it :) You already tried a couple of times. I'm already weary of it ;) > Quick look at the patch looks sane, I’ll do the merge things when

Bug#918520: libfiu: FTBFS randomly when built with eatmydata

2019-04-30 Thread Stewart Smith
Hi! Have I sneakily tried to make you maintainer yet? :) one day somebody will fall for it :) Quick look at the patch looks sane, I’ll do the merge things when home and in front of the laptop with the right github credentials to do so. Sent from my iPhone > On 29 Apr 2019, at 04:25, Alberto

Bug#918520: libfiu: FTBFS randomly when built with eatmydata

2019-04-28 Thread Alberto Bertogli
On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 11:25:22AM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 05:07:34PM +, Alberto Bertogli wrote: As far as I can see, this is caused by a bug/race in libeatmydata's initialization, as described before. It is not a problem in libfiu, or its tests. The attached

Bug#918520: libfiu: FTBFS randomly when built with eatmydata

2019-04-28 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
Hi Stewart, It has been a while :) It seems that libeatmydata has some problems with multi-threading, that I think were known to potentially arise, and it seems they now did. Alberto (CCed) wrote a patch that looks mostly sane to me that ought to be able to fix this issue; do you think you

Bug#918520: Lack of thread safety (in eatmydata_init?) causes non-deterministic behaviour (was: "Re: Bug#918520: libfiu: FTBFS randomly when built with eatmydata")

2019-02-03 Thread Chris Lamb
retitle 918520 Lack of thread safety (in eatmydata_init?) causes non-deterministic behaviour affects 918520 + libfiu thanks Hi Santiago, > > Any further thoughts folks? > > Based on everything Alberto said, should this bug not be reassigned to > eatmydata? That's probably right. Doing so

Bug#918520: libfiu: FTBFS randomly when built with eatmydata

2019-02-03 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 08:50:48AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Chris Lamb wrote: > > > > I'll dig in a bit more and see if I can fix libeatmydata, but it might > > > end up being too invasive and time consuming. I'll send another message > > > once I know more. > > > > Oh, nice analysis so

Bug#918520: libfiu: FTBFS randomly when built with eatmydata

2019-02-02 Thread Chris Lamb
Chris Lamb wrote: > > I'll dig in a bit more and see if I can fix libeatmydata, but it might > > end up being too invasive and time consuming. I'll send another message > > once I know more. > > Oh, nice analysis so far. Sounds like that needs to get (at least > copied...) upstream at the

Bug#918520: libfiu: FTBFS randomly when built with eatmydata

2019-01-28 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Alberto, > I'll dig in a bit more and see if I can fix libeatmydata, but it might > end up being too invasive and time consuming. I'll send another message > once I know more. Oh, nice analysis so far. Sounds like that needs to get (at least copied...) upstream at the very least so that it

Bug#918520: libfiu: FTBFS randomly when built with eatmydata

2019-01-28 Thread Alberto Bertogli
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 03:13:46PM +, Alberto Bertogli wrote: I'll dig in a bit more and see if I can fix libeatmydata, but it might end up being too invasive and time consuming. I'll send another message once I know more. As far as I can see, this is caused by a bug/race in

Bug#918520: libfiu: FTBFS randomly when built with eatmydata

2019-01-28 Thread Alberto Bertogli
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 11:17:41AM +, Chris Lamb wrote: Hi Alberto, > It could be a couple of weeks before I get time to do this though, as > I'm away on holidays No problem; have you managed to get anywhere? :) I've been looking at this today. There are some bugs and races in

Bug#918520: libfiu: FTBFS randomly when built with eatmydata

2019-01-22 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Alberto, > > It could be a couple of weeks before I get time to do this though, as > > I'm away on holidays No problem; have you managed to get anywhere? :) Best wishes, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org  chris-lamb.co.uk `-

Bug#918520: libfiu: FTBFS randomly when built with eatmydata

2019-01-08 Thread Alberto Bertogli
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 08:02:12PM +, Alberto Bertogli wrote: I'll follow up on the ssh offer separately and post my findings later. It could be a couple of weeks before I get time to do this though, as I'm away on holidays and this seems to be low priority. FYI thanks to Santiago's kind

Bug#918520: libfiu: FTBFS randomly when built with eatmydata

2019-01-07 Thread Alberto Bertogli
On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 11:26:01PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: [Adding albert...@blitiri.com.ar to CC] Dear Santiago, It is a "just in case". The offer to ssh into my machine is a blurb which I now add to all my bug reports when the problem is "weird", for example, when it does not seem to

Bug#918520: libfiu: FTBFS randomly when built with eatmydata

2019-01-06 Thread Chris Lamb
[Adding albert...@blitiri.com.ar to CC] Dear Santiago, > It is a "just in case". The offer to ssh into my machine is a blurb > which I now add to all my bug reports when the problem is "weird", > for example, when it does not seem to happen in buildd.debian.org or > reproducible-builds. Awesome

Bug#918520: libfiu: FTBFS randomly when built with eatmydata

2019-01-06 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 10:54:13PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi Santiago, > > > [ I can offer a machine for you to ssh into it and reproduce this if you > > need it, please contact me privately for details ]. > > Just out of interest, is there a good reason why I might not be > able to

Bug#918520: libfiu: FTBFS randomly when built with eatmydata

2019-01-06 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Santiago, > [ I can offer a machine for you to ssh into it and reproduce this if you > need it, please contact me privately for details ]. Just out of interest, is there a good reason why I might not be able to reproduce this locally, or is this a "just in case"? Regards, -- ,''`.

Bug#918520: libfiu: FTBFS randomly when built with eatmydata

2019-01-06 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: src:libfiu Version: 0.98-1 Tags: ftbfs Hello Chris. I'm getting random build failures for this package: [...] debian/rules build-arch dh build-arch --with python3,python2 dh_update_autotools_config -a