Bug#841098: rygel: FTBFS (rygel-media-engine-test fails)

[Santiago Vila]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:49:38AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 26.01.2017 um 10:33 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> > On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 13:41:47 +0100 Jens Georg <jens.georg at jensge.org> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> the rygel-media-engine-test turned out to be racy, the test is broken. 
> >> Please disable it, I will also do that upstream.
> > 
> > A possibly better idea is to mark the test as XFAIL [1]. This way the
> > test is run and you get the results but the test-suite does not fail if
> > this particular test fails.
> > 
> > This is kind of a reminder you get every time you run the test suite
> > that there is still work todo.
> 
> Well, forget what I said. Since it doesn't fail reliably, XFAIL won't
> help. As now you'd suddenly get a failing test suite if the test passes.

Actually, it fails quite reliably: The failure rate observed here is
like 97%, on single-CPU machines. I'm still surprised that we had to
wait for upstream to tell us to disable the test before doing so.

Thanks.