Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-9.3.147-d553ab.tar.xz

[Pádraig Brady]

On 26/08/2023 21:26, Sam James wrote:
> Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> writes:
>
> > We plan to release coreutils-9.4 in the coming week
> > so any testing you can do on various different systems
> > between now and then would be most welcome.
> > This is a stabilization release coming about 18 weeks after the 9.3 release.
>
> On amd64, I get:
> """
> FAIL: tests/tty/tty-eof
> =======================
>
> F: 1: 
> 42d31e6715c300e2c4db53bacaff0e2d5f59454a28e2efd026a4762415171e7af0bb6ead7bcaf0a179b0f720febb5c26a2a7842fae19f71fb0c82163bedb2ce5
>   -
> tty-eof.pl: b2sum exited with status 1 (expected 0)
> tty-eof.pl: dd exited with status 1 (expected 0)
> tty-eof.pl: fmt exited with status 1 (expected 0)
> FAIL tests/tty/tty-eof.pl (exit status: 1)
> """
>
> both in a manual build and within our packaging.
>
> This failure only happens sometimes though.
>
> Everything else passes, not checked other platforms yet.

This is the same as previously reported.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2023-04/msg00020.html
Since I can't repro it's awkward to address.
It is interesting your expect setup seems to be the only one hitting this.
Are there any local patches to your expect packages?

thanks for testing!
Pádraig