bug#29984: core-updates: GRUB test failures

[Mark H Weaver]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 11:56:47AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
>> 
>> > On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> >> FAIL: grub_func_test
>> >
>> > I saved the failed build tree to get at this test's log. The full
>> > contents of the log are this line:
>> >
>> > Functional test failure:
>> 
>> Nice.  What does upstream say?  :-)
>
> I'm working on this today; I'll send them a bug report soon.
>
> I'm going to try skipping the tests to see if this GRUB can boot a
> system, and I'm also going to try running the tests on the latest commit
> from the upstream Git repo.

I believe this is now fixed, by commit
0a2a70539bdf42d59c9be5fcbc88a1c14743303a on core-updates.

The problem turned out to be that GRUB's build system couldn't find
'freetype', because 'pkg-config' was missing from the build environment.
This disabled font generation, as I discovered when I booted into a
core-updates system and found that GRUB was unable to find its font.

After I fixed that problem, I was pleased to find that the test suite
started succeeding again as well :)

I'm closing this bug now.

      Mark