Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] make test failure at qa_constellation_receiver

[Martin Braun]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 08:41:41AM -0700, Ben Reynwar wrote:
> Weird.  This test is probabilistic (not ideal really) but the chance
> of it failing due to chance should be very small.  If it's
> consistently failing on one machine but not another then there's
> something fishy going on, and lowering REQ_CORRECT, while making the
> test pass, wouldn't help finding what's causing the problem.
> 
> First thing I'd do would be to repeat the test a bunch of times and
> confirm you're getting a consistently higher BER on one computer than
> another.  Then I'd do a complete uninstall and reinstall of gnuradio
> on a computer having the issue.  If the problem is still there then
> it's probably going to be an unpleasant bug to find.
> 
> Has anybody else seen this?

Yep, I've seen this--works on my Desktop, doesn't work on my Atom
netbook. Both Ubuntu. However, I thought this bug was squashed a while
ago. I'll dig out my netbook this weekend and see if it still occurs.

MB
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