bug#43344: "basic" system tests fail (and all the other ones) on guix master

[Leo Famulari]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 06:34:21PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> That's useful information, but we should not stay frozen on the 5.8.7
> kernel for much longer.  5.8.8 contains many bug fixes, some of which
> might fix potentially exploitable flaws.
> 
> It would be useful to know if this problem still occurs with 5.8.9,
> which has since come out.  If so, we should do a bisection between 5.8.7
> and 5.8.8 to find out which upstream commit introduced the problem.
> 
> Would anyone like to investigate this further?

I will try to reproduce the bug with 5.8.9 now. I will try the bisection
if time permits.