bug#25476: Test fail

bug#25476: Test fail

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Maria,

Thanks for your report.  In practice you can safely ignore this test
failure.  We had a similar report earlier that this fails on Ubuntu:
<https://bugs.gnu.org/25476>.

Something we should do, though, is to at least skip the test when we
know we’re using a faulty kernel.  Currently we already have:

  ;; XXX: Skip this test when running Linux > 4.7.5 to work around
  ;; <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183461>.
  (when (or (not perform-container-tests?)
            (version>? (utsname:release (uname)) "4.7.5"))
    (test-skip 1))

Gábor, given what you wrote about Ubuntu’s 4.4 kernel, should we
explicitly flag “4.4.0-116-generic” in a similar way?  Would it be
enough?

Thank you both!

Ludo’.

bug#25476: Test fail

[Gábor Boskovits]

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. márc. 30., P 18:39):

> Hi Maria,
>
> Thanks for your report.  In practice you can safely ignore this test
> failure.  We had a similar report earlier that this fails on Ubuntu:
> <https://bugs.gnu.org/25476>.
>
> Something we should do, though, is to at least skip the test when we
> know we’re using a faulty kernel.  Currently we already have:
>
>   ;; XXX: Skip this test when running Linux > 4.7.5 to work around
>   ;; <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183461>.
>   (when (or (not perform-container-tests?)
>             (version>? (utsname:release (uname)) "4.7.5"))
>     (test-skip 1))
>
> Gábor, given what you wrote about Ubuntu’s 4.4 kernel, should we
> explicitly flag “4.4.0-116-generic” in a similar way?  Would it be
> enough?
>
>
>
Yes, it seems that would be enough.
We also have this "4.4.0-21-generic" for not x86.

Alternatively we can point Ubuntu users to the LTSEnablementStack.
This provides a 4.8 kernel since 16.04.2. (feb. 2017.)


> Thank you both!
>
> Ludo’.
>

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bug#25476: Test fail

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. márc. 30., P 18:39):
>
>> Hi Maria,
>>
>> Thanks for your report.  In practice you can safely ignore this test
>> failure.  We had a similar report earlier that this fails on Ubuntu:
>> <https://bugs.gnu.org/25476>.
>>
>> Something we should do, though, is to at least skip the test when we
>> know we’re using a faulty kernel.  Currently we already have:
>>
>>   ;; XXX: Skip this test when running Linux > 4.7.5 to work around
>>   ;; <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183461>.
>>   (when (or (not perform-container-tests?)
>>             (version>? (utsname:release (uname)) "4.7.5"))
>>     (test-skip 1))
>>
>> Gábor, given what you wrote about Ubuntu’s 4.4 kernel, should we
>> explicitly flag “4.4.0-116-generic” in a similar way?  Would it be
>> enough?
>>
>>
>>
> Yes, it seems that would be enough.
> We also have this "4.4.0-21-generic" for not x86.

OK, done.

As time passes, this test can no longer run given the constraints
above.  We should probably rethink it…

> Alternatively we can point Ubuntu users to the LTSEnablementStack.
> This provides a 4.8 kernel since 16.04.2. (feb. 2017.)

Yeah, well, no big deal.

Thanks,
Ludo’.