[From nobody Tue Sep 15 12:09:05 2026 Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 23 Oct 2025 18:08:42 +0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.1-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (2024-03-25) on buxtehude.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-105.1 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,FOURLA, FROMDEVELOPER,FUZZY_CPILL,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY, USER_IN_DKIM_WELCOMELIST autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=4.0.1-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.0000 Tokens: new, 15; hammy, 150; neutral, 105; spammy, 0. spammytokens: hammytokens:0.000-+--Hx-spam-relays-external:sk:stravin, 0.000-+--H*RT:sk:stravin, 0.000-+--Hx-spam-relays-external:311, 0.000-+--H*RT:311, 0.000-+--H*RT:108 Return-path: <smcv@debian.org> Received: from stravinsky.debian.org ([2001:41b8:202:deb::311:108]:47760) by buxtehude.debian.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM:256) (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from <smcv@debian.org>) id 1vBzju-003oEJ-0D for submit@bugs.debian.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2025 18:08:42 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=debian.org; s=smtpauto.stravinsky; h=X-Debian-User:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type :MIME-Version:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date:Reply-To:Cc:Content-ID: Content-Description:In-Reply-To:References; bh=lOgLdWbUR8ZtjfK1pe5/YCQTxrpo6tqjodab0Lzj/SU=; b=OiwIL1x4yYTBIl1HeMSTbi280G MZHLhEcUkwdlMx+hQsafRezAPe1Og0HH1nJxL9NlMo7McIa/G/0o+/5LHugfk2K1hCvG9vJgZDpTA AkmpUaL05PAyG1DCOpQcl8wFZwiWrqV+mGzZw6iIiiCt7ktbfxqLJ+faY17f+YoocU6R6PpsMC6Pt WgckArvH4GBtkUAfQQCL/J2Ixlsno+Q1NsOK5LkqcxMdMMOJskKbyh+UkFsUdnAFE7oyFdRbU3Snm vHMMkn67b+lDvYrs7yrnktsS5DJWkLYDcdVZfWnbIOsP0CSnHt1+0mJ+xxF2FaYi0ptRfZSRqL9oe KgocupIg==; Received: from authenticated user by stravinsky.debian.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM:256) (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from <smcv@debian.org>) id 1vBzjr-008NzX-L9 for submit@bugs.debian.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2025 18:08:39 +0000 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:08:37 +0100 From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org> Subject: gnome-chemistry-utils: autopkgtests intermittently time out, especially on s390x, and don't seem to really test the package Message-ID: <aPpvJUgp7uPgcc6_@remnant.pseudorandom.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mutt-Fcc: =.lists.debian/ X-Reportbug-Version: 13.2.0 X-Debian-User: smcv Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org Source: gnome-chemistry-utils Version: 0.14.17-6.3 Severity: serious X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-ci@lists.debian.org User: debian-s390@lists.debian.org Usertags: s390x User: debian-ci@lists.debian.org Usertags: flaky The autopkgtests for src:gnome-chemistry-utils usually take seconds, but sometimes one of them blocks until the ~ 3 hour timeout is hit. For whatever reason this seems to be more common on s390x. When this happens, it blocks migrations to testing: for example, at the moment it's preventing glib2.0 from migrating. Having looked into this, I'm not at all sure that these tests are actually doing anything useful. The test command for each one is something like: xvfb-run -a /usr/bin/gchemcalc & but if gchemcalc crashed (perhaps a segfault or a missing library dependency), would that test actually even fail? As an experiment I tried changing the test to: Test-Command: xvfb-run -a sh -c 'echo Pretending to crash >&2; kill -ABRT $$' & Depends: xauth, xvfb, gcu-bin Features: test-name=run-sigabrt Restrictions: allow-stderr and it trivially "passes": >autopkgtest [19:05:04]: test run-sigabrt: xvfb-run -a sh -c 'echo Pretending to crash >&2; kill -ABRT $$' & >autopkgtest [19:05:04]: test run-sigabrt: [----------------------- >/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.nigxlbus/downtmp/wrapper.sh: Killing leaked background processes: 2205 > PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND > 2205 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/xvfb-run -a sh -c echo Pretending to crash >&2; kill -ABRT $$ >autopkgtest [19:05:04]: test run-sigabrt: -----------------------] >autopkgtest [19:05:04]: test run-sigabrt: - - - - - - - - - - results - - - - - - - - - - >run-sigabrt PASS >autopkgtest [19:05:04]: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ summary >run-sigabrt PASS which I think means these tests do not meet https://release.debian.org/testing/rc_policy.txt §6a. I think the timeouts might have more to do with autopkgtest not always being able to kill the leaked background xvfb-run process; possibly xvfb-run is blocking signals? smcv ]