On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:49:38AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 26.01.2017 um 10:33 schrieb Michael Biebl: > > On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 13:41:47 +0100 Jens Georg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> the rygel-media-engine-test turned out to be racy, the test is broken. > >> Please disable it, I will also do that upstream. > > > > A possibly better idea is to mark the test as XFAIL [1]. This way the > > test is run and you get the results but the test-suite does not fail if > > this particular test fails. > > > > This is kind of a reminder you get every time you run the test suite > > that there is still work todo. > > Well, forget what I said. Since it doesn't fail reliably, XFAIL won't > help. As now you'd suddenly get a failing test suite if the test passes.
Actually, it fails quite reliably: The failure rate observed here is like 97%, on single-CPU machines. I'm still surprised that we had to wait for upstream to tell us to disable the test before doing so. Thanks.
