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

[Sam James]

Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> writes:

> 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.

Ah, sorry, I thought I had but I couldn't find it after looking briefly.

It seems to happen more on cold builds for some reason. I know it's
really awkward given you can't repro it - can you help me make sense
of what the failure implies so I can try poke at it a bit more? It's
unclear to me what it's actually saying or which component is playing
up.

> It is interesting your expect setup seems to be the only one hitting this.
> Are there any local patches to your expect packages?

There's some patches to keep it building with newer C compilers but most
of them are upstream backports (and if they're not, they're trivial and
for the build system).

It looks like our perl Expect package doesn't have any patches and I
don't see anything suspicious in its TTY-related dependencies either.

It's also weird that I can only hit it occasionally on my system, while
nobody else (including other Gentoo users, or me on other machines)
can hit it :(

>
> thanks for testing!

Thanks! linux on hppa{1.1,2.0}, ia64, ppc32, ppc64be, ppc64le, sparc64
is all good.

> Pádraig