T149 is a CSE test. I think the CSE is now happening, but it's fragile. It's fine that it happens, so perhaps we should record it as ok, and look again if it starts failing. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org] On | Behalf Of Jan Stolarek | Sent: 25 June 2013 21:06 | To: ghc-devs@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Unreliability of the build system | | T149 has been failing for a very long time (a few weeks at least). I also had | process007 fail. | | Janek | | Dnia wtorek, 25 czerwca 2013, Mateusz Kowalczyk napisał: | > On 25/06/13 15:43, Jan Stolarek wrote: | > > I just ran validation (once without any parameters and once with | > > --normal) and got no failures, except for some tests that always | > > fail. Looks like the problem may be solved. | > > | > > Janek | > > | > > Dnia wtorek, 25 czerwca 2013, Geoffrey Mainland napisał: | > >> On 06/24/2013 09:21 PM, Jan Stolarek wrote: | > >>>> My only claim was that I have a set of steps that can | > >>>> reliably reproduce an error on my system, not that these | > >>>> steps will reliably reproduce it on an arbitrary system, | > >>>> e.g., yours. Still, being able to reliably reproduce an | > >>>> error, even if only on one system, is *very* useful. | > >>> | > >>> just misunderstood your use of the word "reliable". Certainly | > >>> having | > >> | > >> this level of | > >> | > >>> reproducibility is very helpful in debugging, even if it's only | > >>> on one | > >> | > >> machine. | > >> | > >>>> So, to be clear, you see recache errors sporadically and for | > >>>> different sets of tests across different runs, and you are | > >>>> running validate with no extra arguments, single-threaded, on | > >>>> a Linux x86_64 system with an ext4 file system? | > >>> | > >>> Yes, except I would say "very often" instead of "sporadically". | > >>> I'm | > >> | > >> not sure about | > >> | > >>> single-threaded. I run validate without any parameters - | > >>> doesn't it | > >> | > >> use more then one thread in | > >> | > >>> this case? | > >> | > >> It looks like running validate without any parameters will use 2 | > >> threads. | > >> | > >> I've pushed a fix (I hope) for this issue. Could you check and | > >> see if it's fixed for you now? | > >> | > >> Geoff | > > | > > _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing | > > list ghc-devs@haskell.org | > > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs | > | > Which tests are these? I ran `./validate' yesterday on a stock (that | > is, I haven't made any changes to the source) and had about 5-7 tests | > fail and wasn't sure if this was a known issue or something I should | > be reporting. | | | | _______________________________________________ | ghc-devs mailing list | ghc-devs@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs