The auto-revert-test test fails for me routinely. Not always, though; it's not reproducible in general. Attached is a sample log. I don't want to spend time debugging this myself, but thought that whoever wants to know about this test failure should know about it. In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.13 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.15) of 2015-10-06 Repository revision: a4a98a1b2568793ead43e824ecf227768759df12 Configured using: 'configure --enable-gcc-warnings' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: en_US.utf8 value of $LC_COLLATE: en_US.UTF-8 value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8 value of $LC_MESSAGES: en_US.UTF-8 value of $LANG: C locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: diff-auto-refine-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t global-whitespace-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-quote-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: ~/src/gnu/emacs/static-checking Mark set Compilation finished [2 times] Quit (Shell command succeeded with no output) Mark set (New file) Mark set Mark saved where search started Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils dired-aux smerge-mode pcmpl-unix pcmpl-gnu dired misearch multi-isearch vc vc-dispatcher vc-git diff-mode easy-mmode cc-mode cc-fonts cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs grep shell pcomplete compile comint ansi-color ring term/xterm xterm byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cl-extra help-mode easymenu cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib cconv time-date whitespace mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 287055 11181) (symbols 48 24171 0) (miscs 40 224 1712) (strings 32 27358 9129) (string-bytes 1 1499242) (vectors 16 18157) (vector-slots 8 842432 86232) (floats 8 152 267) (intervals 56 33060 6) (buffers 976 47) (heap 1024 52579 2410))