Re: Bug#1042980: gnome-shell: FTBFS on mips64el, mipsel: perf-* tests fail
Version: 44.3-3
gnome-shell/experimental is now building successfully on mips(64)el.
We discovered two related bugs which have not yet been fixed:
There is an apparent bug in llvmpipe, which we would normally use to run
the build-time tests: https://bugs.debian.org/1049404
There is also an apparent timing-, thread- or race-condition-related bug
in gnome-shell or one of its dependencies, seen only when using softpipe:
https://bugs.debian.org/1049407
I think neither of these needs to be RC or block the GNOME 44 transition,
since GNOME is primarily designed to be used on hardware GPUs (and
secondarily on fast x86 VMs with working llvmpipe), so we're now skipping
the affected tests on mips(64)el.
On Fri, 04 Aug 2023 at 15:20:08 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> I notice that the perf-* tests are new in version 44, so if the equivalent
> functionality had been failing on mips*el before, we wouldn't know.
>
> Can you confirm whether gnome-shell/unstable works on a mips*el desktop
> system?
>From comments on
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/71 the
answer is: yes it does work, as long as the mips*el desktop system has a
hardware GPU (in practice it would be from AMD).
> If that works, please try building
> https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/71 with
> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck: does that work or crash on a mips*el desktop?
>From comments on
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/71 the
answer is: yes version 44 also works, again with a hardware GPU.
smcv
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