[Pkg-swan-devel] Bug#926479: strongswan: flaky autopkgtest: ERROR: starter IS NOT RUNNING

[Paul Gevers]

Source: strongswan
Version: 5.7.1-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
Usertags: flaky

Dear maintainers,

Your package has an autopkgtest, great. However, it nearly always fails
in unstable and testing, while once in a while it passes. Because the
unstable-to-testing migration software now blocks on regressions in
testing, flaky tests, i.e. tests that flip between passing and failing
without changes to the list of installed packages, are wasting peoples
time. Please either fix the test to be more robust, or mark this
particular test as "flaky".

I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report. For the
failures I inspected the failure always seems to be on the same place.

More information about this bug and the reason for filing it can be found on
https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/RegressionEmailInformation

Looking at the output of your last test, I also wonder if something
somewhere isn't missing a "set -e" so that it fails on "sh: 1: modprobe:
not found". Is the last test passing correctly?

Paul

https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/s/strongswan/2204395/log.gz

autopkgtest [16:13:34]: test daemon: [-----------------------
ERROR: starter IS NOT RUNNING
autopkgtest [16:13:35]: test daemon: -----------------------]

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