On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 10:34:45 +0200
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:
> 
> > On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 23:24:29 +0200
> > Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> 'core-updates' has finished building on x86_64 and i686.  There
> >> are a few failing packages still, but nothing too scary.  Please
> >> try to fix some if you can!
> >> 
> >> https://hydra.gnu.org/eval/109753?full=1&compare=master#tabs-now-fail  
> >
> > So I spotted [1] that the tailon system test is failing, but the way
> > that it failed isn't included in the log. Is there a way to get at
> > the log file which it generates, or, would it be good to modify the
> > system tests to print out the log file when the test ends?  
> 
> We could print the log upon failure, indeed.
> 
> In the meantime, perhaps you can reproduce it on your machine?  :-)

Unfortunately not, it passes when I run it locally. I can see the test
it fails on, which does involve waiting for the service to start, and
it waits for up to 50 seconds, but maybe that isn't enough, it could
also be a different failure though.