Re: [PATCH] tests: Disable dbus-vmstate-test

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 at 15:21, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> The dbus-vmstate-test has been failing in some Patchew configs
> since about the 6th March:
>
>   dbus-daemon[9321]: Could not get password database information for UID of 
> current process: User "???" unknown or no memory to allocate password entry
>
>   **
>   
> ERROR:/tmp/qemu-test/src/tests/qtest/dbus-vmstate-test.c:114:get_connection: 
> assertion failed (err == NULL): The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 
> 18)
>   cleaning up pid 9321
>   ERROR - Bail out! 
> ERROR:/tmp/qemu-test/src/tests/qtest/dbus-vmstate-test.c:114:get_connection: 
> assertion failed (err == NULL): The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 
> 18)
>   make: *** [/tmp/qemu-test/src/tests/Makefile.include:632: 
> check-qtest-x86_64] Error 1
>   make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>
> It's not clear why this is happening (perhaps a recently revealed
> race condition or a change in the patchew build environment?).
>
> For the moment, disable this test so that patchew test runs are
> useful and don't email the list with spurious failure mails.

I've applied this to master to suppress the patchew emails.
(If people would prefer to turn the relevant patchew config
off again instead we can then revert this commit. AFAICT we
lose test coverage either way...)

thanks
-- PMM