hypre tests failing irreproducibly, is openmpi3 behaving well?
I tried to activate debci (autopkgtest) for hypre 2.14.0-4, but it's
proving frustrating. Many arches (32 bit in particular but also
mpis64el) fail to pass build-time tests. But even amd64 is failing
debci tests, https://ci.debian.net/packages/h/hypre/unstable/amd64/
The frustrating thing is that the test failures are not reproducible.
debci times out on a different test each time. Strange also that the
debci tests (for hypre 2.14.0-4) succeeded on testing (15 min to
complete), it's on unstable that they're failing.
A manual run of "autopkgtest -B -- null" succeeds on my own computer,
and on the amd64 Debian project machine. That said, I do get occasional
build-time time-outs when building the package on my own computer.
Upstream recently released hypre 2.15.0 so there's the off-chance
they've fixed a bug that might help. I was hoping to have debci working
smoothly with hypre before the transition, however.
The pattern seems similar to the openmpi RC bugs #905418, #907267,
#907407, where tests are failing for other packages. Alastair, do we
have any clue what's going on here? Any new OMPI_MCA_* environment
variable we should consider activating? Or should I judge the hypre
tests to be too "heavy" (unreliable) for automated testing?
Drew
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