Bug#805863: gnutls28: FTBFS on amd64 - testsuite failures

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2015-12-28 Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it> wrote:
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> I tried with pbuilder and sbuild on DebOMatic
> http://debomatic-amd64.debian.net/distribution#unstable/gnutls28/3.3.19-1/buildlog

> I also did some test with parallel=32, but I always succeeded.

> So can it be something hw related?

> Maybe the computer workload, or something more deep in the hw
> itself.  this would explain why I never had this issue, and also why
> changing the build machine made it build correctly.

Hello,

I am pretty sure it is not hardware related, but some timimg issues
ire nvolved, see
http://lists.gnutls.org/pipermail/gnutls-devel/2015-December/007805.html
A fast machine and TMP on tmpfs (e.g /dev/shm) "helps". ;-)

> Just trying to help, I hope my guesses are not too much stupid :)

No worries, grateful for any help.

Uptream is at it, but it seems to be a hard nut.
<http://lists.gnutls.org/pipermail/gnutls-devel/2015-December/007820.html>

cu Andreas
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