[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#906965: Bug#906965: network-manager: tests will fail (FTBFS) with GLib 2.57 because it makes g_debug() a fatal error

[Michael Biebl]

On 8/22/18 20:46, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Source: network-manager
> Version: 1.12.0-4
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch fixed-upstream
> 
> While upgrading GLib to 2.57.x in a Debian derivative, I found that
> NetworkManager will FTBFS with a test failure when that version is used,
> for example:
> 
> [  236s] ERROR: src/tests/test-general-with-expect
> [  236s] =========================================
> [  236s]
> [  236s] **
> [  236s] test:ERROR:src/tests/test-general-with-expect.c:393:test_nm_utils_kill_child: assertion failed: (WIFEXITED (exit_status) && WEXITSTATUS(exit_status) == 0)
> [  236s] ./tools/run-nm-test.sh: line 235: 10619 Aborted                 "${NMTST_DBUS_RUN_SESSION[@]}" "$TEST" "$@"
> [  236s] # random seed: R02S91844261d2e3f659fd4c6852f1ff07c0
> [  236s] 1..5
> [  236s] # Start of general tests
> [  236s] ok 1 /general/nm_utils_monotonic_timestamp_as_boottime
> [  236s] PASS: src/tests/test-general-with-expect 1 /general/nm_utils_monotonic_timestamp_as_boottime
> [  236s] Bail out! GLib-FATAL-DEBUG: posix_spawn avoided (automatic reaping requested) (fd close requested)
> [  236s] ERROR: src/tests/test-general-with-expect - Bail out! GLib-FATAL-DEBUG: posix_spawn avoided (automatic reaping requested) (fd close requested)
> [  236s] Bail out! test:ERROR:src/tests/test-general-with-expect.c:393:test_nm_utils_kill_child: assertion failed: (WIFEXITED (exit_status) && WEXITSTATUS(exit_status) == 0)
> 
> GLib 2.57 is available in Debian experimental.
> 
> I know the NM version we're using is a bit out of date, but I checked
> upstream and Debian git and it doesn't look as though this was fixed
> subsequently in the upstream 1.12.x branch or in Debian. It appears to
> have been fixed in upstream 1.13.3 by this commit:
> 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/3e8eef538987c909e87b871a6b8c74aee08661a3
> 
> This will become RC for Debian (unless I was wrong about its
> reproducibility) when glib2.0 2.57.x/2.58.x are ready to be uploaded
> to unstable.

Lubo, could you cherry-pick that patch for the nm-1-12 branch?



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