Strange failing tests behaviour

[nico202]

Hi, I'm compiling julia on Guix.
When I run all tests those 3 are failing:
"exceptions" "client" "stacktraces"

(using 1 runner)
Errors are along those lines:

Error in testset exceptions:
Test Failed at /tmp/guix-build-julia-1.3.1.drv-0/julia-1.3.1/test/exceptions.jl:11
  Expression: length(catch_stack()) == 1
   Evaluated: 2 == 1
Error During Test at /tmp/guix-build-julia-1.3.1.drv-0/julia-1.3.1/test/exceptions.jl:43
  Test threw exception
  Expression: ((stack[1])[1]).msg == "RootCause"
  type String has no field msg
  Stacktrace:
   [1] getproperty(::String, ::Symbol) at ./Base.jl:20
   [2] top-level scope at /tmp/guix-build-julia-1.3.1.drv-0/julia-1.3.1/test/exceptions.jl:43
   [3] top-level scope at /tmp/guix-build-julia-1.3.1.drv-0/julia-1.3.1/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Test/src/Test.jl:1107
   [4] top-level scope at /tmp/guix-build-julia-1.3.1.drv-0/julia-1.3.1/test/exceptions.jl:8
  caused by [exception 3]
1/test/testdefs.jl:20\n")
Error in testset stacktraces:
Test Failed at /tmp/guix-build-julia-1.3.1.drv-0/julia-1.3.1/test/stacktraces.jl:56
  Expression: catch_backtrace() == StackFrame[]
   Evaluated: Union{Ptr{Nothing}, Base.InterpreterIP}[Ptr{Nothing} @0x00007ffff7b7313b, Ptr{Nothing} @0x00007ffff7b4c514, Ptr{Nothing} @0x00007fffcfc55ceb, Ptr{Nothing} @0x00007fffcf
c55d3d, Ptr{Nothing} @0x00007ffff7b3090c, Ptr{Nothing} @0x00007ffff7c68a8e, Ptr{Nothing} @0x00007ffff7c686e0, Ptr{Nothing} @0x00007ffff7c69214, Ptr{Nothing} @0x00007ffff7c6984f, Ptr{
Nothing} @0x00007ffff7c69a1f  …  Ptr{Nothing} @0x00007ffff7b3f784, Ptr{Nothing} @0x00007fffe64781bf, Ptr{Nothing} @0x00007ffff7b30cac, Ptr{Nothing} @0x00007ffff7b3f784, Ptr{Nothing} 
@0x00007fffe6478048, Ptr{Nothing} @0x00007ffff7b30cac, Ptr{Nothing} @0x00007fffe6475533, Ptr{Nothing} @0x00007ffff7b3090c, Ptr{Nothing} @0x00007ffff7b4c389, Ptr{Nothing} @0x000000000
0000000] == Base.StackTraces.StackFrame[]
Error in testset precompile:
Error During Test at none:1
  Test threw exception

(full log here)

The interesting thing is that, if running just those 3 tests they pass. Any pointer on what's going on?

Thanks, Nicolò

[nico202]

Adding details:

• running core + [ "backtrace", "exceptions", "client", "stacktraces" ] -> failing tests
• running all but core + [ "backtrace", "exceptions", "client", "stacktraces" ] -> passing tests

I'm working around it by running "core" last, but I'd like to understand more about it