From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Cc: Platoxia <platoxia@protonmail.com>, 35521@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35521: Mariadb test suite failures on x86_64-linux
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:32:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ef2xlgmb.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wogpn6f7.fsf@devup.no>
Hi,
Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
> Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been encountering this failure off and on for a few weeks now, and
>> I'd like to help fix it. In short, it seems like non-deterministic test
>> failures, to me. I think we should gather data and report the issue
>> upstream, and maybe disable the offending tests in the meantime.
>
> I agree. I notice many of these failing tests are for the TokuDB
> backend, which I doubt anyone is using in Guix anyway.
>
> Here is a patch that disables all tests mentioned in this report. I
> would like to push it to core-updates. Are there others?
I'm concerned by how frequently and casually we simply disable failing
tests. What is the utility of running test suites at all, if this is
how we respond?
It makes me wonder how many programs are subtly broken on my Guix system
because of this widespread practice.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-10 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-01 9:18 bug#35521: Mariadb test suite failures on x86_64-linux Mark H Weaver
2019-05-01 9:47 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-07-10 6:18 ` Chris Marusich
2019-07-10 17:30 ` Marius Bakke
2019-07-10 21:32 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2019-07-11 20:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-12 8:02 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-07-11 22:01 ` Marius Bakke
2019-07-12 8:24 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-07-12 14:58 ` Marius Bakke
2019-07-13 17:29 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-07-13 22:42 ` Marius Bakke
2019-07-14 2:35 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-07-14 11:10 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-07-14 15:58 ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-07-14 4:42 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-07-14 17:17 ` Marius Bakke
2019-07-14 18:34 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-07-14 21:15 ` Marius Bakke
2019-07-13 18:38 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-05-10 1:33 ` bug#35521: /gnu/store/c46sn2yfllcfi86p8227wvvr1bxssgxj-mariadb-10.1.38.drv - Failing test(s): tokudb_alter_table.hcad_all_add Platoxia
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