David I’m still getting all these fatal errors when making a single test. Plus it takes several seconds for them all to happen. Any thoughts about supressing this stuff? I know you made some progress here. Thanks Simon simonpj@cam-05-unx:~/5builds/HEAD-4/testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_compile$ make stage=1 TEST=T13871 PYTHON="python3" "python3" ../../../driver/runtests.py -e "ghc_compiler_always_flags='-dcore-lint -dcmm-lint -no-user-package-db -rtsopts -fno-warn-missed-specialisations -fshow-warning-groups -fdiagnostics-color=never -fno-diagnostics-show-caret -Werror=compat -dno-debug-output'" -e config.compiler_debugged=True -e ghc_with_native_codegen=True -e config.have_vanilla=True -e config.have_dynamic=True -e config.have_profiling=False -e ghc_with_threaded_rts=True -e ghc_with_dynamic_rts=True -e config.have_interp=False -e config.unregisterised=False -e config.have_gdb=False -e config.have_readelf=True -e config.ghc_dynamic_by_default=False -e config.ghc_dynamic=False -e ghc_with_smp=True -e ghc_with_llvm=False -e windows=False -e darwin=False -e config.in_tree_compiler=True -e config.cleanup=True -e config.local=True --rootdir=. --config-file=../../../config/ghc -e 'config.platform="x86_64-unknown-linux"' -e 'config.os="linux"' -e 'config.arch="x86_64"' -e 'config.wordsize="64"' -e 'config.timeout=int() or config.timeout' -e 'config.exeext=""' -e 'config.top="/5playpen/simonpj/HEAD-4/testsuite"' --config 'compiler="/5playpen/simonpj/HEAD-4/inplace/test spaces/ghc-stage1"' --config 'ghc_pkg="/5playpen/simonpj/HEAD-4/inplace/test spaces/ghc-pkg"' --config 'haddock=' --config 'hp2ps="/5playpen/simonpj/HEAD-4/inplace/test spaces/hp2ps"' --config 'hpc="/5playpen/simonpj/HEAD-4/inplace/test spaces/hpc"' --config 'gs="gs"' --config 'timeout_prog="../../../timeout/install-inplace/bin/timeout"' -e "config.stage=1" \ --only=T13871 \ \ \ \ \ \ Timeout is 300 fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /5playpen) Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set). Failed to get allowed metric changes from the HEAD git commit message. 0 Found 1 .T files... Beginning test run at Mon Nov 26 16:26:18 2018 GMT ====> Scanning ./all.T =====> T13871(normal) 1 of 1 [0, 0, 0] cd "T13871.run" && "/5playpen/simonpj/HEAD-4/inplace/test spaces/ghc-stage1" -c T13871.hs -dcore-lint -dcmm-lint -no-user-package-db -rtsopts -fno-warn-missed-specialisations -fshow-warning-groups -fdiagnostics-color=never -fno-diagnostics-show-caret -Werror=compat -dno-debug-output -fno-warn-incomplete-patterns SUMMARY for test run started at Mon Nov 26 16:26:18 2018 GMT 0:00:01 spent to go through 1 total tests, which gave rise to 3 test cases, of which 2 were skipped 0 had missing libraries 1 expected passes 0 expected failures 0 caused framework failures 0 caused framework warnings 0 unexpected passes 0 unexpected failures 0 unexpected stat failures Appending 0 stats to git notes. fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /5playpen) Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set). fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /5playpen) Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set). fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /5playpen) Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set). fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /5playpen) Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set). fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /5playpen) Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set). An error occured while writing the performance metrics to git notes. ​ This is usually due to a lock-file existing somewhere in the git repo. simonpj@cam-05-unx:~/5builds/HEAD-4/testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_compile$