Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] ptest-packagelists.inc: disable gnutls for RISCV64

["Trevor Gamblin" <tgamblin@baylibre.com>]

On Tue Sep 22, 2026 at 4:01 AM EDT, Joao Marcos Costa wrote:
> Hello, Trevor
>
> On 9/21/26 9:44 PM, Trevor Gamblin wrote:
>> On Fri Sep 18, 2026 at 5:07 AM EDT, João Marcos Costa wrote:
>>> Timeouts have been observed (very frequently in the past weeks)
>>> in the autobuilder, and a bug [1] was filed at Bugzilla.
>>>
>>> For now, it's not quite clear what specific test case is causing the timeout.
>>>
>>> [1] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16162
>> 
>> I think that this change is too aggressive given what we actually see in the AB
>> issue - most of the logs seem to show a timeout at the same part of the ptest
>> run, after the 'mini-record' test. I'm doing some investigation locally to see
>> what the heaviest tests in the suite are, so that we can more surgically disable
>> only the problematic ones instead.
>
> Well, it was agressive indeed, considering how frequent this one became 
> in the past few weeks, and I was not 100% happy to send this patch 
> either way.
>
> So thanks a lot for narrowing it down. I can send a v2 later this week 
> to handle the worst offenders (as per your comment in bugzilla).

Sure! Let me know if I can help.
>
>> Trevor
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: João Marcos Costa <joaomarcos.costa@bootlin.com>
>>> ---
>>>   meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc | 4 ++--
>>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
>>> index 79e27f617b..9b264657bb 100644
>>> --- a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
>>> +++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
>>> @@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ PTESTS_PROBLEMS:append:riscv32 = " lttng-tools strace"
>>>   PTESTS_SLOW:append:libc-musl = " libc-test"
>>>   
>>>   # These tests don't yet pass for riscv64
>>> -PTESTS_SLOW:remove:riscv64 = "tcl tcl8 python3-cffi strace lttng-tools python3-numpy perl glib-2.0 zstd"
>>> -PTESTS_PROBLEMS:append:riscv64 = " tcl tcl8 python3-cffi strace lttng-tools python3-numpy perl glib-2.0 zstd"
>>> +PTESTS_SLOW:remove:riscv64 = "tcl tcl8 python3-cffi strace lttng-tools python3-numpy perl glib-2.0 zstd gnutls"
>>> +PTESTS_PROBLEMS:append:riscv64 = " tcl tcl8 python3-cffi strace lttng-tools python3-numpy perl glib-2.0 zstd gnutls"
>>>   
>>>   # These tests don't yet pass for musl qemuarm64
>>>   PTESTS_SLOW:remove:libc-musl:qemuarm64 = "strace perl gnutls glib-2.0"
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