Re: Automated report: NetBSD-current/i386 test failure

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 24/04/2018 15:27, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 08:51:52AM +0000, NetBSD Test Fixture wrote:
> > This is an automatically generated notice of new failures of the
> > NetBSD test suite.
> >
> > The newly failing test cases are:
> >
> >      net/ndp/t_ra:ra_basic
> [..]
> >      2018.04.20.11.25.39 roy src/usr.sbin/rtadvd/rtadvd.c,v 1.63
> >      2018.04.20.11.31.54 roy src/usr.sbin/rtadvd/rtadvd.c,v 1.64
> >      2018.04.20.13.27.45 roy src/usr.sbin/rtadvd/timer.c,v 1.16
> >      2018.04.20.13.27.45 roy src/usr.sbin/rtadvd/timer.h,v 1.10
> >      2018.04.20.15.29.19 roy src/usr.sbin/rtadvd/config.c,v 1.39
> >      2018.04.20.15.57.23 roy src/usr.sbin/rtadvd/config.c,v 1.40
> >      2018.04.20.15.57.23 roy src/usr.sbin/rtadvd/rtadvd.c,v 1.65
> >      2018.04.20.15.57.23 roy src/usr.sbin/rtadvd/rtadvd.h,v 1.17
> >      2018.04.20.15.59.17 roy src/usr.sbin/rtadvd/timer.c,v 1.17
> >      2018.04.20.16.07.48 roy src/usr.sbin/rtadvd/timer.c,v 1.18
> >      2018.04.20.16.18.18 roy src/usr.sbin/rtadvd/rtadvd.h,v 1.18
> >      2018.04.20.16.37.17 roy src/usr.sbin/rtadvd/rtadvd.conf.5,v 1.19
> >      2018.04.20.16.37.17 roy src/usr.sbin/rtadvd/rtadvd.h,v 1.19
>
> The test seems to assume that rtadvd will send at least one RA at
> startup, but the kernel does not count any in this case.
>
> So the test case loops in "await_RA" with a current RA count of 0, untill
> ATF times the whole process out.

Maybe the kernel is rejecting the RA somehow?
I've checked and rtadvd is still sending 3 unsolicited RA's - one pretty 
much ASAP and two 15 seconds afterwards, all with some randomisation.

Enable nd6_debug on the rump kernel expecting to process them and check 
for errors.

Roy