Re: Git self test failure on Solaris 11.3

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Jun 6, 2019, 19:00 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cQi6V=B7GtdN3+-1nPnLXiVjz-O+=WJt5f94o7wHy1VHg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190606173516.GA25089@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 1:35 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 01:18:01PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> > > > not ok 12 - check normal git operations: twelve packs
> >
> > Jeff Walton reported this to me privately. I'm not familiar with this
> > code and don't have time presently to investigate it, so I'm
> > forwarding it to the list in the hope that someone who knows the code
> > intimately (Stolee) or someone who has touched this code (Peff) might
> > have some idea about it. The failure is intermittent, so perhaps the
> > output of some command is not stable sort-wise(?).
>
> I can't seem to get it to fail for me, even under high load. Do you know
> which of those commands is failing (i.e., what does "-v -x" say)?

I don't know.

> I can't reproduce the intermittent failure either on 2.21.0, or with
> v2.22.0-rc3.

I can't reproduce it either on Jeff's Solaris box. Perhaps Jeff can add "-v -x" to his automated build/test script in order to help diagnose the problem if it occurs again.

Thanks for looking into it.