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

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 05:35:38PM -0600, 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.
> 
> -- 
> Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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> 



My tree has a fix which I will send upstream shortly.