Re: Please reschedule regina-normal/arm build

[Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>]

Aurelien Jarno a écrit :
> Ben Burton a écrit :
>> Hi again,
>>
>> Thanks for rescheduling another regina-normal/arm build.  Unfortunately
>> it looks as though it crashed at the same point in the test suite as
>> last time.
> 
> It has been tried on hedges, which is the buildd which has the most RAM
> (with a few others). So if the problem comes from there (which I doubt),
> we won't be able to do better.
> 
>> I did try to reproduce this problem myself -- Martin Guy was good enough
>> to give me access to a box of his with enough oomph to actually build
>> the package (which leisner.d.o does not have).  When I built regina-normal
>> on his machine the test suite ran perfectly.
>>
>> My problem at the moment is that AFAICT the arm build is the only thing
>> keeping the new upstream out of lenny.  In this case I can see two
>> options (though I'm all ears if someone has another idea):
>>
>> - We find someone who is able to reproduce the crash, and we use their
>>   box for diagnosing the problem;
>>
>> - I do a new upload that does not run the test suite when building on arm.
> 
> What about still running the testsuite, but ignoring the errors?
> 
>> Whilst option (2) is a bit head-in-the-sand, it's also the only
>> practical option I can see if nobody can reproduce this crash manually.
>>
>> Opinions?
>>
> 
> I will try to reproduce the bug here, but my arm machine already have a
> long queue of things to do, so that won't be before the end of the week.
> 

FYI the segfault occurs in:

#0  0x00093414 in NTriangulationTest::setUp ()

I will get a closer look later.


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