Re: T460: new sporadic failures with emacs 29

Subject: Re: T460: new sporadic failures with emacs 29

Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 10:15:43 -0300

To: Michael J Gruber, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+grubix+git@gmail.com> writes:

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> *ERROR*: Opening output file: Permission denied, /usr/bin/OUTPUT
>  PASS   Stash id
> ```
>
> That "/usr/bin/OUTPUT" looks strange and smells like a mis-expanded
> variable.

Yes, that's pretty weird. The only writes to "OUTPUT" are relative to
emacs default-directory. Not sure how that could be set to /usr/bin;
possible some weird script involved with starting emacs? 

> Why sporadically, though? The emacs test wait 0.1 before writing - I
> dunno why, but those waits are fragile and make me nervous about even
> keeping the tests for release builds.

One thing that might help is to make the wait some global variable
amount of time, and
various CI/build scenarios could set it to some generous length.


>
> I guess due to its load, COPR is prone to exposing timing issues.
>

there are some very slow architectures (e.g. mipsel) on the debian
buildds, so I'm a bit surprised we don't see similar issues there.
Maybe you are just doing more builds (which is great, obviously).
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