Re: [PATCH] .gitlab-ci.d/windows: Work-around timeout and OpenGL problems of the MSYS2 jobs

[Bin Meng]

On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 3:35 AM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 05/01/2023 09.34, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > On 04/01/2023 23.01, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 at 12:36, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The windows jobs (especially the 32-bit job) recently started to
> >>> hit the timeout limit. Bump it a little bit to ease the situation
> >>> (80 minutes is quite long already - OTOH, these jobs do not have to
> >>> wait for a job from the container stage to finish, so this should
> >>> still be OK).
> >>>
> >>> Additionally, some update on the container side recently enabled
> >>> OpenGL in these jobs - but the corresponding code fails to compile.
> >>> Thus disable OpenGL here for the time being until someone figured
> >>> out the proper fix in the shader code for this.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>   Now that the timeout and OpenGL problems are gone, the 64-bit is
> >>>   working fine for me again. However, I'm still seeing random issues
> >>>   with the 32-bit job ... not sure whether it's a problem on the
> >>>   QEMU side or whether the builders are currently instable, since
> >>>   the issues do not reproduce reliably...
> >>>
> >>>   .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml | 7 ++++---
> >>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> Thanks; applied to master on the assumption it will improve the
> >> CI situation. I found that the msys2-32bit job still timed out
> >> at 1h20, though:
> >>
> >> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/3555245586
> >
> > I just gave it a try again, too, and for me, it finished within 65 minutes:
> >
> >   https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu/-/jobs/3557600268
> >
> > ... let's keep looking for a while, maybe it's ok in most cases now, but if
> > not, we have to consider something else.
>
> Ok, so after I've been struggling with a failing msys2-32bit job for my new
> upcoming pull request the last two days (I thought I had a bad patch in
> there), where I had some problems with the test-hmp and qom-test qtests,
> I've come up with a new theory after looking at this CI run from the
> qemu-project staging branch and seeing that these tests are also failing 
> there:
>
>   https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/3558798544
>   https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/3560870904
>
> That might also explain the timed-out job that you have seen earlier, Peter,
> it was likely a hanging qom-test since that seems to be the first test to be
> executed during the "make check" there.
>
> So the qtests for Windows are definitely not ready for the CI yet (after
> we've enabled them just in December). I think it's best to disable them
> there again completely until the issues are understood and fixed.
>

I cannot reproduce the test failures of both tests (test-hmp and
qom-test) with w32 executables. Neither did the w64 executables.

My testing repo is at commit d1852caab131ea898134fdcea8c14bc2ee75fbe9.

Regards,
Bin