GNU bug report logs - #59884
‘gui-installed-desktop-os-encrypted’ test intermittent failures

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Message #18 received at 59884-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 59884-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59884: ‘gui-installed-desktop-os-encrypted’ test intermittent failures
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 16:35:35 +0100

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> Yeah.  One possibility is timing: (restart-service 'guix-daemon) kills
> the daemon’s process group, waits for the group leader to terminate,
> then starts the daemon.  I think there’s a possibility that other
> processes in the group (like a ‘guix substitute’ child) are still alive
> at that point and they might be the one keeping the device busy.
> Sleeping for a couple of seconds should allow us to kinda verify that
> hypothesis.

For good measure, I threw a retry loop in commit
61b7e9687757aff013b99e4ab15669a950c8b222.  The test passes on my laptop
and it passed on ci.guix as well:

  https://ci.guix.gnu.org/eval/31297

I’m considering the case closed and now getting ready for 1.4.0rc2.

Ludo’.

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