On Wed 2017-02-15 12:09:54 -0500, Roger Shimizu wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 1:36 AM, James Cowgill <jcowgill@debian.org> wrote:
>> On 15/02/17 11:24, Roger Shimizu wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 7:51 PM, James Cowgill <jcowgill@debian.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So do you know why the tests only pass when using 2 CPUs? That seems
>>>> pretty fishy to me. Maybe there is an underlying bug here?
>>>
>>> I'm not sure the reason.
>>> I was just trying to help on the FTBFS RC bug during BSP Tokyo.
>>
>> I found the actual cause - there's a race condition in the testsuite
>> which will usually (100% in practice) cause it to deadlock on single
>> processor systems. You can look at the bug I filed upstream if you want.
>
> Thanks for catching the race condition bug!
>
> But can we do something to prevent the autoremove of the package soon?
> I guess the testcase issue can be lower to non-RC level then.
Thanks to both James for the investigation and to Roger for the proposed
workaround.
I've just pushed 0.0.git20140301-3 to the archive with Roger's
workaround, and noted James' diagnosis and upstream bug report.
Regards,
--dkg
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