From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: icalendar-real-world test sometimes fails Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:17:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87fvhq7k6m.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406233056 19348 80.91.229.3 (24 Jul 2014 20:17:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 20:17:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulf Jasper Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 24 22:17:31 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XAPSE-0005Ww-RA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 22:17:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51609 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XAPSE-0004Mj-C2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:17:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33707) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XAPSB-0004MT-8a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:17:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XAPS7-0000CJ-0X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:17:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46862) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XAPS6-0000CD-TN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XAPS5-0000jj-1i; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:17:21 -0400 X-Spook: electronic surveillance Arnett SEAL Team 6 pipeline X-Ran: 3!BE8/uZpsk!z383;<9Ht^`:A$b1;6y{\syFqY?&#m.CB{#S2Tby~*I~91kp.KenE$>]R\ X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87fvhq7k6m.fsf@web.de> (Ulf Jasper's message of "Thu, 24 Jul 2014 19:14:57 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:173128 Archived-At: Ulf Jasper wrote: > I'm wondering why the test fails "sometimes". Does that really mean > that the test finishes successfully one day but fails the next day? Yes! :) It (randomly?) pings back and forth between success and failure for no reason I can fathom. http://hydra.nixos.org/build/12698548 # works, trunk r117565 http://hydra.nixos.org/build/12699658 # fails, trunk r117566 http://hydra.nixos.org/build/12711693 # works, trunk r117567 It has been doing this for a while, in emacs-24 branch too. It usually works, but once in a while it fails. > In any case I would prefer to fix the root cause instead of modifying > the test case. The "# coding..." should not get inserted into the > diary file, should it? Where does it come from? That's the question...