bug#30299: [core-updates] shepherd fails tests on all systems except x86_64

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi Mark,

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

[...]

>>> This is a non-deterministic failure.  I could reproduce the
>>> tests/basic.sh one and it is fixed by this:
>>>
>>>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/shepherd.git/commit/?id=cc9564586729a5bb90dd5d2722b543fdde9ab821
>>
>> For now, I added your patch to the shepherd package in core-updates, in
>> commit f2d2ee42f168909f27c0c3b6532ef16febfd3b86.
>
> With your patch, Hydra built shepherd successfully on i686-linux on the
> first try, which is much better than the 19th try :)

We’re making progress.  :-)

> However, on armhf-linux, three tests failed: respawn.sh,
> respawn-throttling.sh, and pid-file.sh.
>
>   https://hydra.gnu.org/build/2499835

I’ll try to reproduce the failure here.

> We should probably arrange for test-suite.log to be printed when "make
> check" fails.  We could add this functionality to selected packages like
> shepherd and guix the next time we update them, and maybe consider
> adding something generic to gnu-build-system's check phase in the next
> core-updates cycle.  What do you think?

Definitely.  We discussed it before and I think it’s a good idea.  I
wanted to add it to ‘guix’ as a starting point but never got around to
doing it.

Thanks,
Ludo’.