Staffan, I suspect its because of root/non-root. OS X attach doesn't work for non-root user. Test check it and skips silently. But if the test run under root, it tries to run and then fail.
-Dmitry On 2016-04-08 11:10, Staffan Larsen wrote: > Why did this test start failing? > >> On 7 apr. 2016, at 20:35, serguei.spit...@oracle.com wrote: >> >> Dmitry, >> >> I agree with Tim. >> The message at L85 should not be alarming but look similar to the one at >> L107. >> Something, like this: >> 85 System.out.println("This test is not expected to work on OS X. >> Skipping"); >> >> >> Thanks, >> Serguei >> >> >> On 4/7/16 11:13, Tim Bell wrote: >>> On 04/07/16 10:56, Dmitry Samersoff wrote: >>>> Everybody, >>>> >>>> Please review small changes. >>> >>> Note: I am not a "R"eviewer in Serviceability. Free advice follows: >>> >>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dsamersoff/JDK-8152679/webrev.01/ >>>> >>>> Test that is not expected to work on OS X, detect OS X and exits. >>> >>> 84 // Coredump stackwalking is not implemented for Darwin >>> 85 System.err.println("Error! This test is not expected to >>> work on OS X."); >>> >>> >>> It is not implemented, so landing here during a test run on Mac OS should >>> not be surprising. >>> >>> Rather than printing 'Error!' I suggest removing that alarming string, as >>> on line 107 . >>> >>> My 0x02 cents. >>> >>> Tim >>> >>> >> > -- Dmitry Samersoff Oracle Java development team, Saint Petersburg, Russia * I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the sources.