On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 03:30:10PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 12:54:46AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > FAIL: grub_cmd_set_date
> 
> > All in all, I’m tempted to think this has to do with running the tests
> > in parallel.
> > 
> > As a stop-gap measure, I’ve committed a change to run tests
> > sequentially.  With this “guix build grub --rounds=5” passes for on my
> > x86_64 laptop.  Let’s reopen the bug if we find that’s not enough.
> 
> This test just failed for me on x86_64, even with #:parallel-tests? #f.
> 
> So, perhaps it's not an inter-test race, or perhaps the tests are still
> running in parallel, or some other thing.

Spurred by another report of this test failing, here's a patch to
disable it completely.