[debbugs-tracker] bug#29984: closed (core-updates: GRUB tests hang after file_filter_test)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: core-updates: GRUB tests hang after file_filter_test Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 15:01:05 -0500 User-agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15)

While building GRUB for x86_64-linux on core-updates, the test suite
appears to hang after file_filter_test.

As far as I can see, the test suite is waiting for *something*, not
actually doing any work.

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> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
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> > On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 11:56:47AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
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> >> > On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> >> >> FAIL: grub_func_test
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> >> > I saved the failed build tree to get at this test's log. The full
> >> > contents of the log are this line:
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> >> > Functional test failure:
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> >> Nice.  What does upstream say?  :-)
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> > I'm working on this today; I'll send them a bug report soon.
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> > I'm going to try skipping the tests to see if this GRUB can boot a
> > system, and I'm also going to try running the tests on the latest commit
> > from the upstream Git repo.
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> I believe this is now fixed, by commit
> 0a2a70539bdf42d59c9be5fcbc88a1c14743303a on core-updates.
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> The problem turned out to be that GRUB's build system couldn't find
> 'freetype', because 'pkg-config' was missing from the build environment.
> This disabled font generation, as I discovered when I booted into a
> core-updates system and found that GRUB was unable to find its font.
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> After I fixed that problem, I was pleased to find that the test suite
> started succeeding again as well :)
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> I'm closing this bug now.
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>       Mark
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