[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#901170: ostree: libostree/test-concurrency.py.test intermittently fails: opendir(staging-$RANDOM): No such file or directory

[Simon McVittie]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 at 13:22:58 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> More specifically: libostree/test-concurrency.py.test failed. I suspect
> that this indicates a race condition in libostree, or possibly a race
> condition in that test.

I disabled that test for autopkgtest in 2018.5-2. It's still run at
build-time (it seems to be reliable enough there to not be a practical
problem), and is still in ostree-tests. If autopkgtest/debci grow a way
to mark tests as flaky (so that the test is run for its logs, but its
failure is treated as though the test had been skipped and does not cause
failures or block migration), then I'll re-enable it and mark it as flaky.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to reproduce this locally by running that
test in a loop a few hundred times, so I am unlikely to be able to debug
it for a while.

    smcv