Re: T460: new sporadic failures with emacs 29

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

Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:09:46 +0200

To: David Bremner

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Michael J Gruber


Am Do., 24. Aug. 2023 um 16:01 Uhr schrieb David Bremner <david@tethera.net>:
>
> David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
>
> > Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+grubix+git@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> -notmuch@notmuchmail.org
> >> -http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
> >> *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?
>
> I just saw this when running in debian's "sbuild" isolated build
> environment. So my current guess is that this has to do with HOME
> pointing somewhere nonexistent. Is that also the case in COPR?
>

I encountered this on koji (the main Fedora infra), too, and am trying
with an increased wait (1 rather than 0.1) right now. Dunno by how
much this increases test suite run times.

HOME could be an issue only if some builder VMs are set-up
differently, I guess? They shouldn't be (which does not necessarily
mean they aren't).

Michael
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