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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: Re: Test fail
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To: =?utf-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor?= Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com>
Cc: 25476@debbugs.gnu.org, help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>, Maria Sidorova <hydromasha@gmail.com>

Hello,

G=C3=A1bor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> ezt =C3=ADrta (id=C5=91pont: 2018. m=
=C3=A1rc. 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=E2=80=99re 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=3D183461>.
>>   (when (or (not perform-container-tests?)
>>             (version>? (utsname:release (uname)) "4.7.5"))
>>     (test-skip 1))
>>
>> G=C3=A1bor, given what you wrote about Ubuntu=E2=80=99s 4.4 kernel, shou=
ld we
>> explicitly flag =E2=80=9C4.4.0-116-generic=E2=80=9D in a similar way?  W=
ould 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=E2=80=A6

> 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=E2=80=99.