Public bug reported: Hi, while pushing an SRU I realized that on arm the kernels dep8 tests are somewhat shaky. I think they work fine but in case there is more load on the boxes hosting the containers for the arm tests it times out (rather often).
Examples are [1], [2], [3] and it seems to occur in about 1/3 of the cases when looking at [4]. I've seen the same on Yakkety and later. I saw it on Xenial as well, but for whatever reason less often. Maybe it didn't have to compile so much back then or the compiler does extra checks now? However - we should consider if possible to add a testing hint that this takes a long++ time instead of letting it time out every now and then. I'd not like to vote to disable the test, but as-is it is more a burden than a good quality indicator. [1]: https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-yakkety/yakkety/armhf/l/linux/20170519_222206_42d4b@/log.gz [2]: https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-yakkety/yakkety/armhf/l/linux/20170505_033350_3922b@/log.gz [3]: https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-yakkety/yakkety/armhf/l/linux/20170411_150605_f143c@/log.gz [4]: http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/linux/yakkety/armhf ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1694237 Title: autopkgtests crashing on arm64 Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Hi, while pushing an SRU I realized that on arm the kernels dep8 tests are somewhat shaky. I think they work fine but in case there is more load on the boxes hosting the containers for the arm tests it times out (rather often). Examples are [1], [2], [3] and it seems to occur in about 1/3 of the cases when looking at [4]. I've seen the same on Yakkety and later. I saw it on Xenial as well, but for whatever reason less often. Maybe it didn't have to compile so much back then or the compiler does extra checks now? However - we should consider if possible to add a testing hint that this takes a long++ time instead of letting it time out every now and then. I'd not like to vote to disable the test, but as-is it is more a burden than a good quality indicator. [1]: https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-yakkety/yakkety/armhf/l/linux/20170519_222206_42d4b@/log.gz [2]: https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-yakkety/yakkety/armhf/l/linux/20170505_033350_3922b@/log.gz [3]: https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-yakkety/yakkety/armhf/l/linux/20170411_150605_f143c@/log.gz [4]: http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/linux/yakkety/armhf To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1694237/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
