Bug#785557: perl: FTBFS on i386 and amd64: itimer problems on buildds?

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 09:44:24AM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> On Sun May 17, 2015 at 22:18:52 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > DSA (also cc'd): What's the virtualization setup with x86-grnet-01,
> > brahms and binet? Is there a difference with babin, which managed
> > to build the i386 binaries? Are the underlying virtualization hosts
> > running jessie too? 
> 
> ganeti, using qemu for all architectures. The underlying virtualization
> hosts for x86-grnet-01 and brahms run jessie, binet's virtualization
> host still runs wheezy. All VMs are bootstraped by DSA with the same
> script, which is available at [1]. After the bootstrapping is done,
> buildd maintainers take over and setup the buildd on the VM.

It seems to be reproducible on barriere.debian.org:

t/op/time ..................................................... # Failed test 2 - very basic times test at op/time.t line 33
FAILED at test 2

More digging needed.