[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#826858: ostree: FTBFS due to test suite errors

[Simon McVittie]

Control: forwarded 826858 https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/issues/328

On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 at 10:35:48 -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> For some reason, ostree hit test suite errors on some architectures.

I'm aware, and already looking into the i386 and hppa errors
(they have the same symptoms). The upstream maintainer has fixed
some issues where the test wasn't immediately aborting when something
went wrong, which made it harder to see what was going on.

Unfortunately, I can't reproduce the i386 failure in a local chroot.

> FWIW, signal 5 is SIGTRAP, at least on x86.

GLib often raises SIGTRAP on fatal errors, including in its test framework.
You have to read a few lines back in the verbose logs to see why.

> - On sparc64 (not a release architecture either):
> 
>   ERROR: tests/test-pull-corruption.sh - too few tests run (expected 2, got 0)
>   ERROR: tests/test-pull-corruption.sh - exited with status 1

This one is a segfault in gjs, a JavaScript environment using Mozilla
code for the interpreter and GObject-Introspection for runtime libraries.
OSTree uses it as a scripting language in some tests, to confirm that
its language bindings work.

It seems likely that this one is a sparc64 bug in either libmozjs,
gjs, GObject-Introspection, or possibly libffi (used by GObject).

    S