[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1022788: cockpit: FTBFS on armel/mipsel/mips64el: dh_auto_test failures

[Michael Biebl]

Source: cockpit
Version: 276.1-1
Severity: serious

cockpit seems to fail its test suite on the aforementioned architectures

on armel:
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(cockpit-bridge:13294): cockpit-bridge-WARNING **: 11:53:58.528: couldn't create runtime dir: /run/user/2952: Permission denied
cockpit-bridge-Message: 11:53:58.577: incompatible: package requires a later version of cockpit: 999.5 > 277
cockpit-bridge-Message: 11:53:58.577: requires: package has an unknown requirement: unknown
cockpit-bridge-Message: 11:53:58.582: couldn't get polkit authority: Error initializing authority: Could not connect: No such file or directory
# cockpit-protocol-DEBUG: cockpit-bridge: reading input 1
# cockpit-protocol-DEBUG: cockpit-bridge: received a 358 byte payload
# cockpit-ws-DEBUG: received init message
# cockpit-protocol-DEBUG: cockpit-bridge: queued 67 byte payload
# cockpit-protocol-DEBUG: cockpit-bridge: want more data
# cockpit-protocol-DEBUG: cockpit-bridge: queued 302 byte payload
# cockpit-protocol-DEBUG: cockpit-bridge: queued 35 byte payload
# cockpit-protocol-DEBUG: cockpit-bridge: queued 34 byte payload
# cockpit-protocol-DEBUG: cockpit-bridge: end of input
# cockpit-protocol-DEBUG: cockpit-bridge: pipe closing when output queue empty
# cockpit-protocol-DEBUG: cockpit-bridge: couldn't write: Broken pipe
# cockpit-protocol-DEBUG: cockpit-bridge: closing pipe: terminated
# cockpit-protocol-DEBUG: cockpit-bridge: killing child: 13294
Bail out! GLib-FATAL-WARNING: GChildWatchSource: Exit status of a child process was requested but ECHILD was received by waitpid(). See the documentation of g_child_watch_source_new() for possible causes.

(test-channelresponse:13227): GLib-WARNING **: 11:53:58.590: GChildWatchSource: Exit status of a child process was requested but ECHILD was received by waitpid(). See the documentation of g_child_watch_source_new() for possible causes.
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cockpit-ws:ERROR:src/ws/test-channelresponse.c:526:test_resource_failure: Got unexpected message: GChildWatchSource: Exit status of a child process was requested but ECHILD was received by waitpid(). See the documentation of g_child_watch_source_new() for possible causes. instead of cockpit-ws-Message: *: external channel failed: *
Bail out! cockpit-ws:ERROR:src/ws/test-channelresponse.c:526:test_resource_failure: Got unexpected message: GChildWatchSource: Exit status of a child process was requested but ECHILD was received by waitpid(). See the documentation of g_child_watch_source_new() for possible causes. instead of cockpit-ws-Message: *: external channel failed: *
FAIL test-channelresponse (exit status: 134)


on mips* the test suite is killed after 150min of inactivity

This currently prevents testing migration, thus filing with RC severity.