Package: autopkgtest Version: 5.38 Severity: normal Hi,
This bug is mostly to document and track an issue that has been annoying me for a long time already. On ci.d.n we have reject_listed [0] several packages because they tmpfail instead of failing. This points at autopkgtest not being able to handle the situation as I think it should.
Examples where I just verified this is the case:
* llvm-toolchain-11 on armhf in bullseye [1] as reported in bug #980957
* llvm-toolchain-13 on armhf in bullseye [2] as reported in bug #980957
Examples where the reject_list mentions tmpfails:
* libreoffice on armel
* linux (qemu) on stable and oldstable
* openjdk-8
* openjdk-11 (I verified it no longer tmpfails on unstable, maybe
oldstable is OK too, but I didn't check)
* openjdk-21 on armel and riscv64
* openjdk-22 on riscv64
* openjdk-23 on armel, loong64 and riscv64
I recall that most of those openjdk-* failures actually happen during
cleanup where the `rm` complains that the /tmp/$some-autopkgtest-dir
directory isn't empty. That appears a race condition to me, where
cleanup starts before the tests really have stopped writing to files
after being killed. I wonder if retrying the removal at least once isn't
going to go a long way to solve that particular issue.
Paul [0] https://ci.debian.net/status/reject_list/[1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/l/llvm-toolchain-11/oldstable/armhf/50087518/
156s clang-$VERSION -flto foo.c -o foo 156s clang: error: unable to execute command: Segmentation fault156s clang: error: linker command failed due to signal (use -v to see invocation) 161s autopkgtest [08:22:06]: ERROR: testbed failure: testbed auxverb failed with exit code 254
[2] https://ci.debian.net/packages/l/llvm-toolchain-13/oldstable/armhf/50087616/
151s clang-$VERSION -flto foo.c -o foo 151s clang: error: unable to execute command: Segmentation fault151s clang: error: linker command failed due to signal (use -v to see invocation) 156s autopkgtest [09:03:07]: ERROR: testbed failure: testbed auxverb failed with exit code 254
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