[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#981876: gdpc: flaky autopkgtest on i386

[Paul Gevers]

Control: severity -1 serious
Control: retitle -1 gdpc: flaky autopkgtest on ppc64el

Hi,

On Sat, 6 Feb 2021 13:23:26 +0100 =?utf-8?Q?=C3=89tienne?= Mollier
<etienne.mollier at mailoo.org> wrote:
> Looking up at this gdpc issue, one of the tests is crashing with
> a buffer overflow rather consistently on i386 with the md.test
> example data on my end; I'm a bit surprised it is only flaky:
> 
> 	$ /usr/bin/gdpc m 2 d 10 erase xyz 2 3 4 5 md.test
> 	
> 	 gdpc version 2.2.5, Copyright (C) 2000 Jonas Frantz
> 	 gdpc comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details
> 	 check out the documentation.  This is free software, and
> 	 you are welcome to redistribute it under all conditions.
> 	
> 	*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
> 	Aborted
> 	Exit code: 134
> 
> I watched the test with the GUI on amd64; that seemed rather
> demanding on CPU cycles.  I'm not sure whether the package ever
> worked for i386 looking up at's its history, so given the
> timing, I would be inclined to vote for a removal on that
> architecture.

I'm seeing the same error regularly on ppc64el too.

https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/ppc64el/g/gdpc/12474535/log.gz
https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/ppc64el/g/gdpc/12078509/log.gz
https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/ppc64el/g/gdpc/12049380/log.gz
https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/ppc64el/g/gdpc/11725569/log.gz

xvfb-run --auto-servernum \
	/usr/bin/gdpc m 2 d 10 erase xyz 2 3 4 5 md.test 2>&1 \
	| tee --append test.log &
sleep 10
*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
Aborted
check_n_cleanup
error: gdpc crashed before the end of the test

Paul

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