Bug#884654: glib2.0: FTBFS on amd64 buildd: gdbus-peer test: assertion 'source->ref_count > 0' failed

[Simon McVittie]

Control: severity -1 important

On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 at 00:15:52 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 at 18:18:41 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > I can reproduce this by running the gdbus-peer test in a loop (this is
> > with GLib git master, not Debian's GLib, but that's close enough).
> 
> I can also reproduce it by building 2.54.1-1 or 2.54.2-2 and re-running
> that test in a loop, but not easily (running 100 times in a loop often
> succeeds). Having looked at the history of the code involved, I think
> this is a long-standing race condition

I've mitigated this bug by not running the gdbus-peer test on buildds
for now (it's still run during autopkgtest). It's still a bug, and I'm in
the process of getting it fixed upstream, but I don't think it deserves
to be RC.

    smcv