[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#806305: dbus: test suite times out on ci.debian.net

[Simon McVittie]

On 26/11/15 10:19, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> The dbus test suite started timing out on ci.debian.net, taking several
> hours to run. A few days ago ci.debian.net switched from using schroot
> to using lxc containers to run tests, so that might be related --
> perhaps because now there is already a system-level dbus daemon running
> on the testbed?

The tests shouldn't require that there isn't already a system dbus-daemon.

One of the tests (uid-permissions when re-run as root) is known to fail
in 1.10.4+. This was not caught by the upstream test suite because it is
not routinely run as root. I believe I've fixed this upstream, and the
same patch has addressed test failures in Ubuntu, but I haven't had time
to do a new release yet.

I thought the symptom of that would be an assertion failure, not a
timeout; but it did seem to be hitting a timeout on
autopkgtest.ubuntu.com prior to the patch being included, so perhaps
this is the same thing?

Is there a way I can reproduce the ci.debian.net environment on a local
virtual machine or cluster of virtual machines, preferably jessie amd64?
https://ci.debian.net/doc/file.MAINTAINERS.html currently still
documents the schroot-based setup.

> I am blacklisting dbus for now, and will reconsider that when this bug
> is closed.

I'll close this bug when I believe the test failure is fixed.

    S