Re: broken "fast" build - hung containers

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

Hi Ted,

> On Sat, 18 Sep 2021 23:13:51 +0200 Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>>> Could we disable the emacs-module-tests.el and process-tests.el inside
>>> EMBA Docker?
>
> MA> Sure. Our "make check" call shall be extended by (untested)
>
> MA> EXCLUDE_TESTS = %emacs-module-tests.el %process-tests.el
>
> I see you skipped the "fast" stage for now. That made the "normal" stage
> we do on every commit pass, but the full builds' "platform images"
> https://emba.gnu.org/emacs/emacs/-/jobs/28174 and "build images"
> https://emba.gnu.org/emacs/emacs/-/jobs/28144 stages are still failing
> on the master branch.

I will test in my private emba project what could be done.

> MA> If we do this, we shall also write bug reports for the maintainers of
> MA> both test files for analysis.
>
> I would really appreciate some guidance on increasing the verbosity of
> the tests so we can produce a bug report.

I believe there's no general rule. Every test package has its own
settings for increasing verbosity.

> There is no maintainer for either of those files. Based on the commit
> history it looks like Philipp Stephani is a good contact for the module
> tests and maybe could help us look at the process tests, so I am CC-ing
> Philipp.

Yep.

> I'd like to reboot the emba and emba-runner machines again to clear all
> the hung containers, but will wait in case there's some useful
> information in them for the debugging.
>
> Thanks
> Ted

Best regards, Michael.