Bug#852883: systemd: FTBFS: Test failures

[Michael Biebl]

Am 29.01.2017 um 17:47 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum:
> On 29/01/17 at 17:28 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Am 29.01.2017 um 17:10 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum:
>>
>>> Yes, tzdata is no longer build-essential, and is not installed in the
>>> chroot.
>>
>> [..]
>>
>>> Actually, I did a rebuild specifically for that some time ago (to file
>>> all bugs in that category). I assume that something changed on the
>>> systemd side, causing it to succeed some time ago, but to fail now.
>>> Maybe that test is new?
>>>
>>
>> E.g. the test_timezone_is_valid() check was added in 2014. I suspect
>> something else: "init" is no longer eseential, and as a result installed
>> by default in the buildd chroot (and I assume this was the case as well
>> on your rebuild), which made the test-suite failures non-fatal:
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851445
>>
>> We fixed that in 232-11
> 
> No, I don't think that's the problem. Here is an older build log, from
> systemd 232-8, from 2017-01-10, which was successful.
> 
> Those two tests were already failing:
> FAIL test-calendarspec (exit status: 134)
> FAIL test-time (exit status: 134)
> 
> But did not cause the build to fail.
> 


That looks like exactly the problem. "init" was no longer installed,
therefore /etc/machine-id didn't exist and as a result the test-suite
failure was ignored.


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