On 4/9/21 1:37 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Am 09.04.2021 um 12:31 hat Daniel P. Berrangé geschrieben: >> On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 12:22:26PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: >>> On 4/9/21 11:43 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: >>>> Just hit this (presumably intermittent) 041 failure running >>>> the build-and-test on the tests/vm netbsd setup. Does it look >>>> familiar to anybody? >>> >>> This one is known as the mysterious failure: >>> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg73321.html >> >> If the test has been flakey with no confirmed fix since Sept 2020, >> then it is well overdue to be switched to disabled by default, at >> least on the platforms it is known to be flakey on. > > Why do you think this is the same problem? It is a completely different > error message, happening in a different test function. The problems > reported in September were fixed in the next version of the pull > request.
Oops my bad, I thought this was the same, sorry. > What Peter is reporting here is probably unrelated to NetBSD, but to > overloaded test hosts. QMPTestCase.pause_wait() uses a timeout of > 3 seconds until it decides that the job probably has just failed to > pause at all, so that the test case wouldn't hang indefinitely on > failure. > > We can increase the timeout, but of course, that doesn't guarantee that > we'll never hit it again on very slow test hosts. > > Kevin >
