Re: failing cuirass i686 tests

[Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net>]

On 23. Jul 2019, at 18:35, Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net> writes:
> 
>> There are a couple of tests that fail (on master, but also the haskell updates
>> branch), compare
>> 
>> http://ci.guix.gnu.org/eval/6534?status=failed
>> 
>> They all seem to fail with the following:
>> 
>> %%%% Starting test basic  (Writing full log to "basic.log")
>> marionette is ready
>> /gnu/store/s3w6pmyi8gxqpq4gd36qzavd2dsgamgb-installed-os-builder:1: FAIL shell and user commands
>> 
>> Any idea what’s going wrong? Anyone working on fixing this? Is there a way to
>> get at that full log in “basic.log”? How would I run this test locally?

Two updates here:

1. I’ve seen a similar failure on x86_64 now:
http://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/1520368/details
So it seems it’s not i686 specific, just fails more frequently then.

2. The failing test "FAIL shell and user commands” runs basic commands
guix/ls/grep/info. Judging by the test output, those do run successfully. The
order of the output seems to be mixed up, but it looks the same as when the tests
pass. My guess is therefore that it’s rather a problem with the testing infrastructure
rather than with that test specifically.

> 
> You can run system tests locally like so:
> 
>  make check-system TESTS=installed-os
> 
> To change build parameters (e.g. to add #:system) you need to edit
> build-aux/run-system-tests.scm.

Thanks! This takes awfully long on my system unfortunately.