[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#873837: dbus: test-refs fails on hurd-i386: Error creating thread: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Simon McVittie]

Source: dbus
Version: 1.11.16+really1.11.16-2
Severity: normal

(X-Debbugs-Cc to debian-hurd)

I recently enabled build-time tests for dbus, after fixing the home
directory issue that had previously meant they failed on all Debian
buildds. Unfortunately this led to a build failure on hurd-i386.
Because it's reasonably clear that nobody with an interest in Hurd
is currently contributing to dbus upstream, and the test results indicate
that dbus does basically work, I'm going to ignore the test failures on
!linux for the moment.

The bug I'm describing in this bug report manifests as a failure of
the test case test-refs:

> (/<<BUILDDIR>>/dbus-1.11.16+really1.11.16/debian/build-main/test/.libs/test-refs:11704): GLib-ERROR **: creating thread '': Error creating thread: Resource temporarily unavailable
> ../../../build-aux/tap-driver.sh: line 639: 11704 Trace/breakpoint trap   "$@"
> # random seed: R02S2177400da32c2ff3132d8939e29fddec
> 1..4
> # Start of refs tests
> # GLib-FATAL-ERROR: creating thread '': Error creating thread: Resource temporarily unavailable
> ERROR: test-refs - too few tests run (expected 4, got 0)
> ERROR: test-refs - exited with status 133 (terminated by signal 5?)

For context, test-refs is a stress-test intended to confirm that the
atomic operations that we use for thread-safe reference counting are
actually working.

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