Good day,

Étienne Mollier, on 2020-09-15 00:05:35 +0200:
> Andreas Tille, on 2020-09-14 08:08:04 +0200:
> > On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 12:58:41PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> > > > But this seems to be kind of a random failure since unstable as well as
> > > > arm64 and ppc64el in testing are currently OK[3].
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the notice, I tried running the test in several
> > > architectures as well.  After running a few times autopkgtests,
> > > I see the intermittent error indeed, at least on amd64, and
> > > i386.  Other architectures I tested (arm64, riscv64) didn't show
> > > this issue so far; I'm virtualizing them, so maybe Qemu
> > > interferes.
> [... https://bugs.debian.org/970344 ...]
> > Hmmmm, this all sounds complicated.  I explicitly put Aaron in To since
> > he is an expert in the blast code and might have some idea.  From my gut
> > feeling we seem to have face some issue inside either blast or biopython  
> > which became visible by chance when running the kaptive test suite.
> 
> I opened #970344 against ncbi-blast+ to document the issue.  One
> thing that should work, should time become of the essence, would
> be to run kaptive.py in single threaded mode, using flag "-t 1":
> 
>       kaptive.py \
>               -t 1 \
>               -a exact_match.fasta \
>               -k 
> /usr/share/${pkg}/reference_database/Klebsiella_k_locus_primary_reference.gbk 
> \
>               -o output/test
> 
> Maybe it would be worth adding a flaky run multi-threaded in
> that case as well, and point to #970344 to indicate where
> intermittent results come from.

I tried running a few times the kaptive test a few times in a
row without "-t 1" and I haven't reproduced the problem after
upgrade of ncbi-blast+ to version 2.10.1-1.

Thanks Aaron for having kept track of the tblastn issue with
multi-threading!

Kind Regards,
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Étienne Mollier <etienne.moll...@mailoo.org>
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