On 11/2/19 6:54 PM, Santiago Vila wrote:
> retitle 908862 neutron: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)
> thanks
> 
> Dear Thomas: Please don't put my name in the bug title like you did.
> That's a gross mischaracterization of what's really happening.

I initially wrote "Santiago Vila + reproducible build" though it got cut
at the plus ... :/ Sorry for this.

> I believe this is a race condition of some sort. You can probably
> reproduce the failure in your laptop by doing this:
> 
> taskset -c 0 dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -A
> 
> I hope this should finally make moreinfo and unreproducible not to
> apply anymore.

I need to repair openvswitch first, as since it's missing, neutron
build-dep can't be installed (I managed to break it, somehow...).

> Disabling the tests in debian/rules if a single CPU is detected would
> probably help, but, as I've shown, the problem is not limited to
> single-CPU systems. I would bet that this also fails in your system
> if you try enough times, but we might better stop here and let upstream
> do their job at finding a proper fix.
> 
> For the Debian package, I would just disable the failing tests, as
> they do not seem to be trusted.

Disabling tests is really not what I want to do. These tests are
catching real world issues, and I do need to detect the problems.

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

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