Re: Strange test failures

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:

> Paul Goyette wrote:
> > There may be other conditions required to trigger this current bug.  One
> > possibility is that the test-bed runs qemu in a fairly low-memory
> > environment - 128MB!  This may (or may not) also explain why gson's i386
> > test bed is not seeing the problem, since i386 consumes somewhat less
> > memory.
>
> I'm running my i386 tests in only 32 MB, and I don't think i386
> consumes that much less memory.

Yeah, I agree that that would tend to reduce the probability of memory 
size solving the problem.  Just to be sure, I'll add a

        --qemu-args "-m 512"

to my anita command.

> One thing I recently noticed is that if I manually start a qemu
> i386 VM (with -m 32) and run the tests twice, as in
>
>  cd /usr/tests
>  atf-run|atf-report
>  atf-run|atf-report
>
> the first test run succeeds, but the second one causes a panic.

Have you managed to get a backtrace or core dump?


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