Your message dated Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:06:43 +0000
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has caused the Debian Bug report #1118669,
regarding gnome-chemistry-utils: autopkgtests intermittently time out,
especially on s390x, and don't seem to really test the package
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Source: gnome-chemistry-utils
Version: 0.14.17-6.3
Severity: serious
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
User: [email protected]
Usertags: s390x
User: [email protected]
Usertags: flaky
The autopkgtests for src:gnome-chemistry-utils usually take seconds, but
sometimes one of them blocks until the ~ 3 hour timeout is hit. For
whatever reason this seems to be more common on s390x.
When this happens, it blocks migrations to testing: for example, at the
moment it's preventing glib2.0 from migrating.
Having looked into this, I'm not at all sure that these tests are
actually doing anything useful. The test command for each one is
something like:
xvfb-run -a /usr/bin/gchemcalc &
but if gchemcalc crashed (perhaps a segfault or a missing library
dependency), would that test actually even fail?
As an experiment I tried changing the test to:
Test-Command: xvfb-run -a sh -c 'echo Pretending to crash >&2; kill -ABRT $$' &
Depends: xauth, xvfb, gcu-bin
Features: test-name=run-sigabrt
Restrictions: allow-stderr
and it trivially "passes":
>autopkgtest [19:05:04]: test run-sigabrt: xvfb-run -a sh -c 'echo Pretending
>to crash >&2; kill -ABRT $$' &
>autopkgtest [19:05:04]: test run-sigabrt: [-----------------------
>/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.nigxlbus/downtmp/wrapper.sh: Killing leaked background
>processes: 2205
> PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
> 2205 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/xvfb-run -a sh -c echo
> Pretending to crash >&2; kill -ABRT $$
>autopkgtest [19:05:04]: test run-sigabrt: -----------------------]
>autopkgtest [19:05:04]: test run-sigabrt: - - - - - - - - - - results - - - -
>- - - - - -
>run-sigabrt PASS
>autopkgtest [19:05:04]: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ summary
>run-sigabrt PASS
which I think means these tests do not meet
https://release.debian.org/testing/rc_policy.txt ยง6a.
I think the timeouts might have more to do with autopkgtest not always
being able to kill the leaked background xvfb-run process; possibly
xvfb-run is blocking signals?
smcv
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Version: 0.14.17-6.3+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package gnome-chemistry-utils has just been removed from the Debian
archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1147652
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
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