[Python-apps-team] Bug#844081: Reproducer

[Filip Pytloun]

Hello,

I checked the changes and as they are done on top of huge refactoring
(introduce of vdir.py), backporting it back to 0.8.4 seems to be too
risky so I will workaround this occasional FTBFS by marking the test as
xfail to avoid autoremoval from stretch.

If we want to fix this issue correctly back in stretch after it's is
stable, it's possible to do upload of new minor version.

Filip

On 2016/12/19 19:06, Christian Geier wrote:
> Hi,
> I could reproduce the issue and have fixed it, see the PR on github [1].
> Depending on how urgent this is, you can either just take the os.sync()
> commit and apply that to the version currently in Debian (which, while
> brute force, certainly fixes this problem), or you might want to wait if
> we find a more elegant solution.
> 
> Christian
> 
> [1] https://github.com/pimutils/khal/pull/543
> 
> Quoting Filip Pytloun (2016-12-11 13:16:56)
> > Hello,
> > 
> > unfortunately I have no longer access to environment where this was
> > happening. But if you were able to reproduce the issue and this fixed it
> > for you, I'll apply it and make new release.
> > 
> > Anyway wouldn't it better to ensure data is written to disk directly
> > during db updates and other operations? Eg. use O_SYNC for safety as
> > these operations doesn't happen so often.
> > 
> > Filip
> > 
> > On 2016/12/11 01:14, Christian Geier wrote:
> > > Hi Filip,
> > > could you perhaps try to change all those sleep()s to `os.sync()`? For
> > > me it seems to fix the issue.
> > > 
> > > See [0] for a patch.
> > > 
> > > If this doesn fix the issue, we obviously need to move the sync call out
> > > of the tests and into the db update.
> > > 
> > > Best regards,
> > > Christian
> > > 
> > > [0] https://github.com/pimutils/khal/commit/0b636f7633e86b9e136b06e9965cd3af0e3918f2
> > > 
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