bug#43344: "basic" system tests fail (and all the other ones) on guix master

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:

> On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 15:26:52 +0200
> Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Anything special with your hardware? KVM support disabled maybe?
>
> The culprit had been the Linux kernel update to 5.8.8.
>
> After downgrading to 5.8.7 it works just fine--no other changes done.
>
> Previously, I had tried also to add wipefs -a before the parted--that
> hadn't helped either.

That's useful information, but we should not stay frozen on the 5.8.7
kernel for much longer.  5.8.8 contains many bug fixes, some of which
might fix potentially exploitable flaws.

It would be useful to know if this problem still occurs with 5.8.9,
which has since come out.  If so, we should do a bisection between 5.8.7
and 5.8.8 to find out which upstream commit introduced the problem.

Would anyone like to investigate this further?

        Mark