• Bug#1108812: remake: FTBFS randomly: Error running /<>/tes

    From Dima Kogan@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 6 01:20:01 2025
    Hello. Thank you for reporting this.

    I just looked at it for a bit. The failure you're seeing results from a
    test taking too long for whatever reason. On my local machine I cannot reproduce it, unless I manually adjust the test timeout to be very
    small.

    The default is 30 sec:

    https://salsa.debian.org/debian/remake/-/blob/master/tests/scripts/features/output-sync#L56

    One simple "solution" is to simply bump up the timeout threshold. Since
    I cannot reproduce this on my own machine (a laptop from 2013!), and it
    has never come up before, I'm wondering if something about your test
    setup is triggering it. The tests create small test Makefiles and
    scenario files and invoke "remake" on them. This accesses files on disk.
    If you're on an instance with a shared disk, could those file access be
    slower than expected?

    Are you able to test a bigger timeout? If not, I would appreciate access
    to a machine where you're seeing the problem, so that I could create and confirm a fix myself.

    Thanks

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  • From Santiago Vila@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 8 13:40:01 2025
    forwarded 1108812 https://github.com/Trepan-Debuggers/remake/issues/168
    thanks

    For the record: I've given Dima a test VM where the package
    fails to build more than 50% of the time.

    Thanks.

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