Bug#906470: grub2: FTBFS (test grub_cmd_set_date fails)

[Santiago Vila]

retitle 906470 grub2: FTBFS (test grub_cmd_set_date fails)
thanks

On Sat, 18 Aug 2018, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 07:21:13PM +0000, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > FAIL: grub_cmd_set_date
> > =======================
> > 
> > qemu-system-i386: -fw_cfg name=etc/sercon-port,string=0: warning: externally provided fw_cfg item names should be prefixed with "opt/"
> > Killed
> > Test failed: 2018-08-14 00:00:37 Tuesday
> 
> Is this consistently reproducible?  I think I've seen this locally on
> occasion, but it's always gone away when I tried to debug it.

Hi.

I seems this is a known issue, it was discovered by Guix people last year:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2017-06/msg00012.html

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=26936

For some people, it seems to fail randomly. In some of my
autobuilders, it always fail.

I would just disable the test and close the bug in Debian.

But if you still want to debug it, I could still offer a test machine
where it happens all the time.

Thanks.