Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 09:06:51PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> leo@famulari.name (Leo Famulari) writes:
>> >     gnu: qemu: Update to 2.9.0 [security fixes].
>> 
>> Thanks for this!  Obviously it's an important security update, but:
>> 
>> On my x86_64 system running GuixSD, 'grub' now fails to build from
>> source.  Three times in a row, the 'grub_cmd_set_date' has failed.
>> Here's the relevant excerpt from test-suite.log (lightly formatted):
>> 
>>   FAIL: grub_cmd_set_date
>>   =======================
>
>> Has anyone else seen this?
>
> I just ran the build 5 times on my x86_64 machine, and it failed this
> test 1/5 times.
>
> We could try patching the test file with 'set -x' to trace the execution
> of the script and see exactly what goes wrong.

Of course it would be good to investigate, but for now, here is the
patch that I used to disable that one test.

       Mark