[PKG-Openstack-devel] Bug#883350: Bug#883350: neutron FTBFS: test failure

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 10:42:15PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 12/02/2017 09:41 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Source: neutron
> > Version: 2:11.0.1-4
> > Severity: serious
> > 
> > https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/neutron.html
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just tried to build, and couldn't reproduce this.

I tried locally before sending the bug and was able to reproduce.

Retrying in reproducible was successful:
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/neutron.html

> This looks like more
> an nondeterministic test than a hard failure, meaning that IMO, this bug
> should be downgraded to important.

A flaky test that fails frequently is also an RC bug, imagine for 
example a security update that FTBFS most of the time.

> Could you get the reproducible machine to restart the build? I'd like to
> know if it's always failing on your machine, influenced by the fact you
> have more CPU cores than I, so it builds on 16 threads instead of 4...

It shouldn't FTBFS with any number if CPU cores.

> Going forward, I'll probably blacklist this test so it doesn't fail
> again "sometimes".

Yes, that sounds like a good solution.

> Cheers,
> 
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)

cu
Adrian

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