ok, very sorry for my delay in looking at this. a quick scan of the results for x/b/f show:
ddstreet@smaug:~$ autopkgtest-manager --distro systemd -a all -r xenial -cv --since 2month --minimum 6 parsed '2month' as '2020-08-09T14:53:00.893145-04:00' 88: boot-smoke FAIL non-zero exit status 1 (amd64:87 arm64:1) 39: systemd-fsckd FAIL non-zero exit status 1 (amd64:39) 47: boot-and-services FAIL non-zero exit status 1 (amd64:41 arm64:6) ddstreet@smaug:~$ autopkgtest-manager --distro systemd -a all -r bionic -cv --since 2month --minimum 6 parsed '2month' as '2020-08-09T14:53:18.194358-04:00' 132: systemd-fsckd FAIL non-zero exit status 1 (i386:14 amd64:117 ppc64el:1) 15: upstream FAIL non-zero exit status 1 (i386:3 amd64:10 ppc64el:1 arm64:1) 29: boot-smoke FAIL non-zero exit status 1 (i386:2 amd64:27) ddstreet@smaug:~$ autopkgtest-manager --distro systemd -a all -r focal -cv --since 2month --minimum 6 parsed '2month' as '2020-08-09T14:56:04.065710-04:00' 96: systemd-fsckd FAIL non-zero exit status 137 (amd64:68 ppc64el:20 s390x:8) 21: systemd-fsckd FAIL non-zero exit status 1 (amd64:1 ppc64el:4 s390x:16) I think the systemd-fsckd failures are issues with how the test is trying to detect 'good' and 'bad' service status, but in any case i rewrote some of the details of how the test works to be simpler and (hopefully) more accurate/reliable, I'm running it through tests from my ppa now, before I upload the test change. I'll take a look at the other test failures; the boot-and-services test has typically had a lot of trouble with services randomly not starting ok, but i'll check on the details. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1892358 Title: autopkgtest success rate dropped inhibiting proposed migration Status in build-essential package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in glib2.0 package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in iputils package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in kbd package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in linux-meta package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in ntpsec package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in qemu package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in linux-meta source package in Bionic: New Status in systemd source package in Bionic: New Status in build-essential source package in Focal: Confirmed Status in linux-meta source package in Focal: New Status in qemu source package in Focal: Confirmed Status in systemd source package in Focal: Confirmed Status in util-linux source package in Focal: Confirmed Bug description: Hi, we had such cases in the past like bug 1817721 for bionic and maybe bug 1892130 is about the same as well. There were more but I didn't want to search for all of them - what I checked is that there are no open ones clearly pointing out the recent further drop in already flaky subtests. In particular the tests "tests-in-lxd" and "systemd-fsckd" were known to be flaky before, but got even worse. Here stats of the last 40 runs, it might be a coincidences that this is after 246-2ubuntu1 landed. Could as well be any other change groovy amd64 tests-in-lxd (F 42% S 0% B 10% => P 45%/) FFFFBFFFFFFFB....FF.B.....F.....F...FBF build-login (F 0% S 0% B 10% => P 87%/) ....B.......B.......B................B. unit-config (F 0% S 0% B 10% => P 87%/) ....B.......B.......B................B. networkd-testpy (F 0% S 0% B 10% => P 87%/) ....B.......B.......B................B. boot-and-services (F 0% S 0% B 10% => P 87%/) ....B.......B.......B................B. boot-smoke (F 0% S 0% B 10% => P 87%/) ....B.......B.......B................B. logind (F 0% S 0% B 10% => P 87%/) ....B.......B.......B................B. storage (F 0% S 0% B 10% => P 87%/) ....B.......B.......B................B. upstream (F 35% S 0% B 10% => P 52%/) ..FFB.FFF.FFB....FF.B.....F.F..F....FBF udev (F 0% S 0% B 10% => P 87%/) ....B.......B.......B................B. systemd-fsckd (F 37% S 0% B 10% => P 50%/) FFFFBFFFFFFFB.FF...FB.....F..........B. root-unittests (F 0% S 0% B 10% => P 87%/) ....B.......B.......B................B. ppc64el tests-in-lxd (F 25% S 0% B 0% => P 75%/) FFFF....FF............FFF.....F......... systemd-fsckd (F 35% S 0% B 0% => P 65%/) FFFFFFF...FF........F....FF.F..F........ root-unittests (F 2% S 0% B 0% => P 97%/) ..............................F......... s390x tests-in-lxd (F 52% S 0% B 0% => P 47%/) FFFFFFF.FFFFFFF.FF.........FFFF...F..... timedated (F 2% S 0% B 0% => P 97%/) ...........F............................ upstream (F 17% S 0% B 0% => P 82%/) .....F......F.F.............FFF...F..... systemd-fsckd (F 32% S 0% B 0% => P 67%/) FFFFFFF..FF..F.................FF..F.... root-unittests (F 10% S 0% B 0% => P 90%/) ............................FFF...F..... arm64 tests-in-lxd (F 40% S 0% B 2% => P 57%/) FFFFF.B...FFF.FF..F..F.........FFF.F.... logind (F 2% S 0% B 2% => P 95%/) ......B...................F............. upstream (F 22% S 0% B 2% => P 75%/) ...F.FB.....F.F.............F..FFF.F.... root-unittests (F 12% S 0% B 2% => P 85%/) ......B.F...........F.F........F...F.... (I'm sure LP will make this unreadable, but is is nice in monospace) Whatever the root cause is - the success rate of these has reduced so much that the (even formerly questionable) practice of retry-until- success won't work anymore. I have run the two tests in a local VM and systemd-fsckd works there while tests-in-lxd seems to trip over the old flaky fellow being "boot-and-services". We had the discussion in the past, but I think I need to again bring up the suggestion to skip "tests-in-lxd" and "systemd-fsckd" until they are on reasonable success rates. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/build-essential/+bug/1892358/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp