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

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 12:48:13PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> 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.

yeah I now realize what I said does not make much sense.

> 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.

Right! I need to update that.

basically

$ sudo adt-build-lxc debian sid
$ adt-run dbus --- lxc --sudo adt-sid-$ARCH

you need to be able to preserve the environment in some calls to lxc-*
under sudo, for that I use the following in /etc/sudoers.d/lxc:

----------------8<----------------8<----------------8<-----------------
%sudo       ALL = NOPASSWD:SETENV: /usr/bin/lxc-
----------------8<----------------8<----------------8<-----------------

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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