Re: 'core-updates' status

[Ludovic Courtès]

Christopher Baines <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 10:34:45 +0200
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
>
>> Christopher Baines <address@hidden> skribis:
>> 
>> > On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 23:24:29 +0200
>> > Marius Bakke <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >  
>> >> 'core-updates' has finished building on x86_64 and i686.  There
>> >> are a few failing packages still, but nothing too scary.  Please
>> >> try to fix some if you can!
>> >> 
>> >> https://hydra.gnu.org/eval/109753?full=1&compare=master#tabs-now-fail  
>> >
>> > So I spotted [1] that the tailon system test is failing, but the way
>> > that it failed isn't included in the log. Is there a way to get at
>> > the log file which it generates, or, would it be good to modify the
>> > system tests to print out the log file when the test ends?  
>> 
>> We could print the log upon failure, indeed.
>> 
>> In the meantime, perhaps you can reproduce it on your machine?  :-)
>
> Unfortunately not, it passes when I run it locally. I can see the test
> it fails on, which does involve waiting for the service to start, and
> it waits for up to 50 seconds, but maybe that isn't enough, it could
> also be a different failure though.

OK.  Maybe you could try locally to:

  guix build --check ….drv --rounds=10 -K

or something.

It doesn’t sound like a blocker anyway.

Thanks,
Ludo’.