Bug#1118963: gtk4: Please disable four more tests on sparc64

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hello Jeremy,

On Mon, 2026-02-16 at 15:27 -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2025-10-27 at 19:21 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > > After the last changes, the failures on sparc64 are actually now down to [1]:
> > > 
> > > Summary of Failures:
> > > 
> > >  26/755 gtk:gdk / dmabufformats                                                      ERROR            3.28s   killed by signal 5 SIGTRAP
> > >  21/755 gtk:gdk / memorytexture                                                      ERROR            3.58s   killed by signal 5 SIGTRAP
> > > 131/755 gtk:gsk / scaling                                                            ERROR            3.36s   killed by signal 5 SIGTRAP
> > > 128/755 gtk:gsk / misc                                                               ERROR            3.82s   killed by signal 5 SIGTRAP
> > > 
> > > Ok:                723
> > > Fail:              4
> > > Skipped:           28
> > 
> > And we need to disable those tests plus another one on powerpc as well:
> > 
> > Summary of Failures:
> > 
> >  26/755 gtk:gdk / dmabufformats                                                      ERROR            4.57s   killed by signal 5 SIGTRAP
> >  21/755 gtk:gdk / memorytexture                                                      ERROR            5.05s   killed by signal 5 SIGTRAP
> > 131/755 gtk:gsk / scaling                                                            ERROR            5.31s   killed by signal 5 SIGTRAP
> > 128/755 gtk:gsk / misc                                                               ERROR            5.45s   killed by signal 5 SIGTRAP
> > 178/755 gtk:gtk / sorter                                                             ERROR            4.37s   killed by signal 6 SIGABRT
> 
> Sorry for the delay responding. I think what the Debian GNOME team
> would like to see before skipping additional tests is some assurance
> that gtk4 actually works well on these platforms. None of us have
> access to a physical machine for these ports. If you have access to a
> machine like that, could you confirm that gtk4 is working despite
> these bugs? There is a binary package gtk-4-examples that install
> gtk4-demo you can use to manually test a wide variety of gtk4 UI
> elements.
> 
> Alternatively, and I know it's a lot of work, but someone could
> identify and fix the code (or the tests) to correct the assumption
> that isn't true for these architectures.

Oracle ships Gtk on Oracle Solaris for SPARC and Gtk applications worked
fine last time I tested them on my Powerbook G4, so I have no doubt that
Gtk actually works on these platforms.

However, I can test the gtk4-demo package if you let me know what to test.

Adrian

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