Bug#923674: systemd: FTBFS (failing tests)

[Michael Biebl]

Am 09.03.19 um 22:43 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 09.03.19 um 22:27 schrieb Santiago Vila:
>> On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 09:59:16PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>> Am 09.03.19 um 21:50 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>>>> Am 09.03.19 um 21:00 schrieb Santiago Vila:
>>>>> to which I also add these two lines:
>>>> ..> /dev/urandom    /dev/random     none    rw,bind         0       0
>>>>
>>>> This might very well be the culprit, given that test-stat-util does the
>>>> following check:
>>>>
>>>>         test_device_path_make_canonical_one("/dev/random");
>>>>         test_device_path_make_canonical_one("/dev/urandom");
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/test/test-stat-util.c#L148
>>
>> Good catch!
>>
>>> Why are you bind mounting /dev/urandom to /dev/random (note the missing
>>> 'u')?
>>
>> It is a workaround for the fact that some packages FTBFS because of
>> lack of entropy (mostly unit tests for cryptography-related packages).
>>
>> Why are you testing /dev/random and /dev/urandom at all?
>>
>> They are supposed to be sane in an autobuilder, no need to check them
>> while building any package.
> 
> The point of the test is to check the implementation of the
> device_path_make_{major_minor|canonical) functions provided by
> libsystemd-shared.
> 
> For that it checks a set of device nodes, among others /dev/random and
> /dev/urandom.
> 
> I'm having a hard timinig blaming the test here, tbh. Having
> /dev/urandom provide a defined behaviour is something that can be
> expected from a sanely configured system.

Felipe, Martin, what's your take on this issue?
I'm inclined to simply close this bug report but would welcome your
feedback first.

Regards,
Michael


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