Re: test-blockjob: intermittent CI failures in msys2-64bit job

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 17/03/2023 11.17, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 at 11:16, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 at 18:36, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've noticed that test-blockjob seems to fail intermittently
>>> on the msys2-64bit job:
>>>
>>> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/3872508803
>>> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/3871061024
>>> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/3865312440
>>>
>>> Sample output:
>>> | 53/89 ERROR:../tests/unit/test-blockjob.c:499:test_complete_in_standby:
>>> assertion failed: (job->status == JOB_STATUS_STANDBY) ERROR
>>> 53/89 qemu:unit / test-blockjob ERROR 0.08s exit status 3
> 
>> Here's an intermittent failure from my macos x86 machine:
>>
>> 172/621 qemu:unit / test-blockjob
>>             ERROR           0.26s   killed by signal 6 SIGABRT
> 
> And an intermittent on the freebsd 13 CI job:
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/3950667240
> 
>>>> MALLOC_PERTURB_=197 G_TEST_BUILDDIR=/tmp/cirrus-ci-build/build/tests/unit G_TEST_SRCDIR=/tmp/cirrus-ci-build/tests/unit /tmp/cirrus-ci-build/build/tests/unit/test-blockjob --tap -k
> ▶ 178/650 /blockjob/ids
>             OK
> 178/650 qemu:unit / test-blockjob
>             ERROR           0.31s   killed by signal 6 SIGABRT
> ――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――― ✀  ―――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――
> stderr:
> Assertion failed: (job->status == JOB_STATUS_STANDBY), function
> test_complete_in_standby, file ../tests/unit/test-blockjob.c, line
> 499.
> 
> 
> TAP parsing error: Too few tests run (expected 9, got 1)
> (test program exited with status code -6)
> ――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――
> 
> Anybody in the block team looking at these, or shall we just
> disable this test entirely ?

I ran into this issue today, too:

  https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu/-/jobs/3954367101

... if nobody is interested in fixing this test, I think we should disable it...

  Thomas