Bug#984952: freecad: femtest.app.test_open.TestObjectOpen test fails on s390x in hirsute

[Brian Murray]

Package: freecad
Version: 0.18.4+dfsg2-6build1
Severity: important
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu hirsute

This bug report was also filed in Ubuntu and can be found at
http://launchpad.net/bugs/1918474

The description, from Brian Murray, follows:

The test femtest.app.test_open.TestObjectOpen which is part of the freecad autopkgtest suite ends up being killed on s390x:

FreeCAD 0.19, Libs: 0.19R
(c) Juergen Riegel, Werner Mayer, Yorik van Havre and others 2001-2021
FreeCAD is free and open-source software licensed under the terms of LGPL2+ license.
FreeCAD wouldn't be possible without FreeCAD community.
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import TestObjectOpen 
test_00print (femtest.app.test_open.TestObjectOpen) ... 
****************************************************************************************************
********** run FEM TestObjectOpen tests ************************************************************
**************************************************************************************************** 
ok
test_femobjects_open_de9b3fb438 (femtest.app.test_open.TestObjectOpen) ... load old document objects 
Importing project files......
Killed

[4828342.378424]
oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_NONE,nodemask=(null),cpuset=lxc.payload.autopkgtest-lxd-cgruyr,mems_allowed=0,global_oom,task_memcg=/lxc.payload.autopkgtest-lxd-cgruyr,task=freecadcmd,pid=2459486,uid=1000000
[4828342.378434] Out of memory: Killed process 2459486 (freecadcmd)
total-vm:2196220kB, anon-rss:1597084kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB,
UID:1000000 pgtables:3608kB oom_score_adj:0
[4828342.577608] oom_reaper: reaped process 2459486 (freecadcmd), now
anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB

I've also tried the test on an m1.large image, with 8G of RAM, but did not change the outcome.

This is also failing in the debian ci infrastructure:

https://ci.debian.net/packages/f/freecad/testing/s390x/