[Debichem-devel] Bug#1021057: cp2k autopkgtest times outs on armel

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 11:53:27AM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Source: cp2k
> Version: 6.1-2
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: timeout fails-always
> 
> Dear maintainer(s),
> 
> Your package has an autopkgtest, great. However, it fails on armel. What's
> worse, it fails because it seems to hang and eventually times out due to
> autopkgtest. Can you please investigate the situation and fix it? I copied
> some of the output at the bottom of this report.
> 
> Tests that time out (while normally running in much less time) are bad for
> our infrastructure. I have added your package to our reject_list on armel
> and will remove it once this bug is closed.
>...

I think both paragraphs are wrong for cp2k...

It is not normally running in much less time, the faster runs are 
failures for actual breakage (the last one in unstable that still
has a test log was some openmpi/pmix breakage).

I am not convinced that it actually hangs,
I would guess your timeout is just too low.

Running FPU-heavy code without FPU is slow.

https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=cp2k&arch=armhf
https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=cp2k&arch=armel

This is build time (which should be similar on armel and armhf)
plus test time, where an order of magnitude difference between
armhf and armel is expected for FPU-heavy code.

Could you try setting the timeout to 10 hours for cp2k on armel?
I'd be optimistic that this will result in a pass.

cu
Adrian