Re: [PATCH] .travis.yml: Temporarily disable the aarch64 job

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> writes:

> Travis-CI Aarch64 runners are currently broken, the build fails
> because the filesystem quota is full [1]:
>
>     AR      libqemuutil.a
>   nm: qemu-sockets.o: Bad value
>     LINK    qemu-ga
>   qga/main.o: In function `main':
>   /home/travis/build/qemu/qemu/qga/main.c:1494: undefined reference to `socket_local_address'
>   qga/channel-posix.o: In function `ga_channel_open':
>   /home/travis/build/qemu/qemu/qga/channel-posix.c:210: undefined reference to `socket_parse'
>   /home/travis/build/qemu/qemu/qga/channel-posix.c:193: undefined reference to `unix_listen'
>   /home/travis/build/qemu/qemu/qga/channel-posix.c:218: undefined reference to `socket_listen'
>   collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>   Makefile:686: recipe for target 'qemu-ga' failed
>   make: *** [qemu-ga] Error 1
>
> Per [2], LXD container have 'approx 18GB' of storage, but our runner show:
>
>   $ df -h
>   Filesystem                                                                                         Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>   /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/storage-pools/instances/containers/travis-job-qemu-qemu-693775643/rootfs  895G   38G  854G   5% /
>
> As we suppose a filesystem quota makes our build fail,
> disable the aarch64 job as a temporary kludge.
>
> [1] https://travis-ci.org/github/qemu/qemu/jobs/693775643
> [2] https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/reference/overview/#virtualisation-environment-vs-operating-system
>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
> ---
>  .travis.yml | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
> index 564be50a3c..3569ee99b3 100644
> --- a/.travis.yml
> +++ b/.travis.yml
> @@ -399,6 +399,7 @@ jobs:
>          - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-debug-tcg"
>  
>      - name: "[aarch64] GCC check-tcg"
> +      if: false # Temporarily disabled due to problem in aarch64 runner.
>        arch: arm64
>        dist: xenial
>        addons:

I was experimenting with something along the lines of:

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.travis.yml: allow failure for unreliable hosts

They will still run but they won't get in the way of the result.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
.travis.yml | 5 +++++

modified   .travis.yml
@@ -429,6 +429,7 @@ jobs:
       env:
         - TEST_CMD="make check check-tcg V=1"
         - CONFIG="--disable-containers --target-list=${MAIN_SOFTMMU_TARGETS}"
+        - UNRELIABLE=true
 
     - name: "[ppc64] GCC check-tcg"
       arch: ppc64le
@@ -493,6 +494,7 @@ jobs:
       env:
         - TEST_CMD="make check check-tcg V=1"
         - CONFIG="--disable-containers --target-list=${MAIN_SOFTMMU_TARGETS},s390x-linux-user"
+        - UNRELIABLE=true
       script:
         - ( cd ${SRC_DIR} ; git submodule update --init roms/SLOF )
         - BUILD_RC=0 && make -j${JOBS} || BUILD_RC=$?
@@ -535,6 +537,7 @@ jobs:
         - TEST_CMD="make check-unit"
         - CONFIG="--disable-containers --disable-tcg --enable-kvm
                   --disable-tools --host-cc=clang --cxx=clang++"
+        - UNRELIABLE=true
 
     # Release builds
     # The make-release script expect a QEMU version, so our tag must start with a 'v'.
@@ -556,3 +559,5 @@ jobs:
         - mkdir -p release-build && cd release-build
         - ../configure ${BASE_CONFIG} ${CONFIG} || { cat config.log && exit 1; }
         - make install
+  allow_failures:
+    - env: UNRELIABLE=true
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-- 
Alex Bennée