Bug#1061123: suitesparse breaks octave autopkgtest: it hangs

[Paul Gevers]

Source: suitesparse, octave
Control: found -1 suitesparse/1:7.5.1+dfsg-1
Control: found -1 octave/8.4.0-1
Severity: serious
Tags: sid trixie
User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
Usertags: breaks needs-update

Dear maintainer(s),

With a recent upload of suitesparse the autopkgtest of octave fails in 
testing when that autopkgtest is run with the binary packages of 
suitesparse from unstable. It passes when run with only packages from 
testing. In tabular form:

                        pass            fail
suitesparse            from testing    1:7.5.1+dfsg-1
octave                 from testing    8.4.0-1
all others             from testing    from testing

I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report. Normally the 
test only takes a couple of minutes, now it times out after 2:47 hours. 
I'm notifying you already as this is currently also impacting the perl 
transition via texinfo.

Currently this regression is blocking the migration of suitesparse to 
testing [1]. Due to the nature of this issue, I filed this bug report 
against both packages. Can you please investigate the situation and 
reassign the bug to the right package?

More information about this bug and the reason for filing it can be found on
https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/RegressionEmailInformation

Paul

[1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=suitesparse

https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/o/octave/41870107/log.gz

  94s  94s Integrated test scripts:
  94s  94s   liboctave/array/Array-base.cc-tst 
.............................. pass   21/21   94s 
liboctave/array/CMatrix.cc-tst ................................. pass 
11/11   94s   liboctave/array/CSparse.cc-tst 
................................. pass   10/10   94s 
liboctave/array/Sparse.cc-tst .................................. pass 
107/107  94s   liboctave/array/dMatrix.cc-tst 
................................. pass   10/10   94s 
liboctave/array/dSparse.cc-tst ................................. pass 
12/12   94s   liboctave/array/fCMatrix.cc-tst 
................................ pass   11/11   94s 
liboctave/array/fMatrix.cc-tst ................................. pass 
8/8    94s   liboctave/array/idx-vector.cc-tst 
.............................. pass    2/2    94s 
liboctave/util/oct-inttypes.cc-tst ............................. pass 
28/28   94s   libinterp/corefcn/Cell.cc-tst 
.................................. pass    5/5    94s 
libinterp/corefcn/__contourc__.cc-tst .......................... pass 
1/1    94s   libinterp/corefcn/__dsearchn__.cc-tst 
.......................... pass    1/1    94s 
libinterp/corefcn/__eigs__.cc-tst .............................. pass 
1/1    94s   libinterp/corefcn/__ichol__.cc-tst 
............................. pass    1/1    94s 
libinterp/corefcn/__ilu__.cc-tst ............................... pass 
1/1    95s   libinterp/corefcn/__isprimelarge__.cc-tst 
...................... pass   10/10   95s 
libinterp/corefcn/__lin_interpn__.cc-tst ....................... pass 
1/1    95s   libinterp/corefcn/__magick_read__.cc-tst 
....................... pass    4/4    95s 
libinterp/corefcn/__pchip_deriv__.cc-tst ....................... pass 
4/4    95s   libinterp/corefcn/__qp__.cc-tst 
................................ pass    1/1    95s 
libinterp/corefcn/amd.cc-tst ................................... pass 
4/4    95s   libinterp/corefcn/besselj.cc-tst 
............................... pass  200/200  96s 
libinterp/corefcn/bitfcns.cc-tst ............................... pass 
60/60  100s   libinterp/corefcn/bsxfun.cc-tst 
................................ pass   82/82  100s 
libinterp/corefcn/call-stack.cc-tst ............................ pass 
3/3   102s   libinterp/corefcn/cellfun.cc-tst 
............................... pass  134/134 102s 
libinterp/corefcn/chol.cc-tst 
..................................malloc(): invalid size (unsorted)
10094s fatal: caught signal autopkgtest [06:55:22]: ERROR: timed out on 
command "su -s /bin/bash debci -c set -e; exec 
/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.gixhwtgb/downtmp/wrapper.sh 
--artifacts=/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.gixhwtgb/downtmp/upstream-testsuite-artifacts 
--chdir=/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.gixhwtgb/downtmp/build.byz/src 
--env=DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=64 --env=DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive 
--env=LANG=C.UTF-8 --unset-env=LANGUAGE --unset-env=LC_ADDRESS 
--unset-env=LC_ALL --unset-env=LC_COLLATE --unset-env=LC_CTYPE 
--unset-env=LC_IDENTIFICATION --unset-env=LC_MEASUREMENT 
--unset-env=LC_MESSAGES --unset-env=LC_MONETARY --unset-env=LC_NAME 
--unset-env=LC_NUMERIC --unset-env=LC_PAPER --unset-env=LC_TELEPHONE 
--unset-env=LC_TIME --script-pid-file=/tmp/autopkgtest_script_pid 
--source-profile 
--stderr=/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.gixhwtgb/downtmp/upstream-testsuite-stderr 
--stdout=/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.gixhwtgb/downtmp/upstream-testsuite-stdout 
--tmp=/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.gixhwtgb/downtmp/autopkgtest_tmp 
--make-executable=/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.gixhwtgb/downtmp/build.byz/src/debian/tests/upstream-testsuite 
-- 
/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.gixhwtgb/downtmp/build.byz/src/debian/tests/upstream-testsuite" 
(kind: test)
10094s autopkgtest [06:55:22]: test upstream-testsuite

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