Bug#894677: glib2.0: FTBFS on i386: test error occurred

Tue Apr 3 11:24:38 BST 2018

Control: retitle -1 FTBFS: Failed to register: The connection is closed; gio/tests/gapplication.c:572:test_quit: assertion failed: (activated)
Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768996
Control: found -1 2.49.3-1

On Tue, 03 Apr 2018 at 11:00:23 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Apr 2018 at 15:31:34 +0800, Boyuan Yang wrote:
> > Justification: fails to build from source on release architecture (but
> > built successfully in the past)
> 
> This looks like a transient failure (a race condition in the test)
> which was probably there for a long time. There have been no source code
> changes since 2.56.0-1.

Yes, this is an intermittent failure present since before stretch. I could
reproduce it on amd64 by running

    /usr/lib/glib2.0/installed-tests/glib/gapplication --tap

several thousand times in a loop.

    smcv