On 1/22/21 6:06 PM, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on python-eventlet, to fix a FTBFS bug and an > incompatibility with python3.9. I got both fixes ready, but I'm not > fighting with the fact that the test suite fails randomly. In my > experiments, the test suite fails ~40% of the time, but *only when run > during the build* (!!). > > - I added a testsuite run to autopkgtest, and it consistently passes, > 100% of the time. > - If I run the same command as pybuild runs manually (python3 -m nose) > on a fully patched tree, it passes 100% of the time. > - Only during the build -- when executed automatically by pybuild -- the > test fails ~40% of the time. > > The failures are the typical failures you get when testing concurrency > code: timeouts, race conditions, etc, and it happens on different tests > every time. What I don't quite understand yet is why this _only_ happens > during the Debian package build. > > I already checked that the tests don't use anything else from the source > tree beyond the tests themselves and the python modules. For example the > autopkgtest copies tests/, and only it, to a temp directory and runs the > tests from there; and works every time. So in principle I wouldn't need > to have an explicit testfiles file. > > Does anybody have an insight on cases like this? Are there any details > that I'm missing? > > If anyone wants to try it, the git repository is up to date.
Hi, Eventlet looks broken beyond just the unit tests. I did a deployment of OpenStack on unstable, and there's lots of issues on absolutely all daemons. Hopefully, I can fine time to investigate this next week. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
