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

[Thomas Goirand]

On 12/03/2017 02:15 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> 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.

Right. It just depends on how frequently. If it's 1% of the time, I
wouldn't make it RC. Anyway, let's not discuss this, and focus on fixing
the problem.

>> 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.

Sure, I was just trying to understand what the issue was.

>> Going forward, I'll probably blacklist this test so it doesn't fail
>> again "sometimes".
> 
> Yes, that sounds like a good solution.

This will be done shortly. Thanks for your bug report.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)