On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 09:59:00AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 11 August 2017 at 09:51, David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 01:47:03PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> On 9 August 2017 at 08:03, David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> > >> wrote: > >> > I haven't completed a Travis build for this, which is part of my usual > >> > test regime, since the first dozen or so Travis builds are failing > >> > more often than not on master as well. I don't know why this is - > >> > seems to be failing some of the x86 tests. > >> > >> Doesn't look much worse than usual to me -- of the last 24 travis > >> builds for master 4 failed and 20 passed. > > > > Uh.. that's not been my experience. I was a bit unclear in my > > description, though. Until maybe a week and a half ago I found the > > Travis build was fairly reliable, though there were occasional > > transien failures. Now, essentially every Travis build is failing for > > me. Specifically most of the first dozen or so of the batch of build > > configurations on Travis fail (that's "X" not "!"). These seem to be > > transient failures in the sense that if I rebuild enough times they'll > > eventually pass, but unlike earlier when the builds would suceed most > > of the time, they now seem to succeed at best around 1/3 of the time > > (that's ~1/3 of the time for each configuration sub-build, so with a > > dozen or so apparently affected that means a complete passing build > > essentially never). > > > > See for example https://travis-ci.org/dgibson/qemu/builds/263312174 > > where 5 subbuilds have failed (which is relatively few). In each case > > the failing error seems to be something like: > > > > ERROR:tests/vhost-user-test.c:807:test_connect_fail: child process > > (/i386/vhost-user/connect-fail/subprocess [55883]) failed unexpectedly > > > > Seems to be i386 in some cases and x86_64 in others.
And is it always the connect-fail test? > Weird. https://travis-ci.org/qemu/qemu/builds is the master > build history and as you can see it's mostly greens. > Not sure why your setup would be significantly worse: > maybe one of the travis submaintainers has an idea. > It could just be our vhost-user-test is flaky but I don't > know why that should hit you much more than master... > > > thanks > -- PMM
