[Debichem-devel] Bug#952463: Bug#952463: bagel: flaky arm64 autopkgtest: terminate called without an active exception

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 10:16:32AM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
>...
> On 25-02-2020 15:56, Michael Banck wrote:
>...
> > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 08:57:40PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> >> https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/arm64/b/bagel/4258642/log.gz
> >>
> >> running test case 'hf_sto3g_relfci_gaunt'... terminate called without an
> >> active exception
> >> /tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.q3t4znog/downtmp/build.F1y/src/debian/tests/testsuite.sh:
> >> line 85: 15487 Aborted                 BAGEL test/${testname}.json >
> >> ${testname}.out
> >> /tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.q3t4znog/downtmp/build.F1y/src/debian/tests/testsuite.sh:
> >> fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
> >> FAILED.
> >  
> > This looks like the arm64 authobuilder has not enough memory or
> > something?
> 
> autopkgtest don't run on the autobuilders, but I the message is of
> course still relevant. The arm64 workers have plenty of memory, so if
> the memory is exhausted, the test should implement a check and fail
> gracefully if there isn't enough to run the test. Interestingly, in the
> logs I check I see different tests and different amount of tests fail.
> Are the tests run in parallel? Could this be turned off (at least to see
> if things become more stable) or the amount of parallelism be reduced?

The results from accidental builds in recent months look good:
https://ci.debian.net/packages/b/bagel/unstable/arm64/

Considering the fact that noone ever understood what the problem was,
could you re-enable the autopkgtest to see whether any problems are
still present?

> Side note which warrants it's own bug; bagel (at least the autopkgtest)
> needs an update due to the new mpich (seen both on arm64 and amd64):
> running test case 'hf_sto3g_relfci_coulomb'... BAGEL: error while
> loading shared libraries: libmpichcxx.so.12: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory
>...

This was a bug in libmpich12 that was fixed/reverted in April.

> Paul

cu
Adrian