Re: [Qemu-devel] 'make check' failure on Fedora 23

[Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>]

On 04/06/2016 02:35 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Fedora 23 recently pushed acpica-tools.x86_64 20160318-1.fc23; with this
> installed, 'make check-qtest' (part of 'make check') now fails with:
>
> GTESTER check-qtest-x86_64
> **
> ERROR:tests/bios-tables-test.c:455:normalize_asl: assertion failed:
> (block_name)
> GTester: last random seed: R02S920fc706036c189c6183c50ae002dbd1
> **
> ERROR:tests/bios-tables-test.c:455:normalize_asl: assertion failed:
> (block_name)
> GTester: last random seed: R02Sccc109c5192857eddb99203160e3f750
> **
> ERROR:tests/bios-tables-test.c:455:normalize_asl: assertion failed:
> (block_name)
> GTester: last random seed: R02S4c7289cb7d625a50855ca9a69e2ba8dc
> **
> ERROR:tests/bios-tables-test.c:455:normalize_asl: assertion failed:
> (block_name)
> GTester: last random seed: R02Sf7cb7c41ed3718deced4d57cde200401
> /home/eblake/qemu/tests/Makefile:638: recipe for target
> 'check-qtest-x86_64' failed
>
> Reverting (# dnf downgrade --disablerepo=updates acpica-tools) to
> acpica-tools.x86_64 20150619-2.fc23 lets the tests pass again.  I don't
> know enough about the test or the tools to know if the problem is a
> change in expected output (the qemu test is not tolerant enough, in
> which case we should improve the test), or a regression in upstream
> acpica-tools (in which case I should file a BZ), but this should
> probably be addressed before 2.6.
>

I've already posted a fix for this: [PATCH] tests/bios-tables-test: fix assert
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/605931/

Thanks,
Marcel