0.76 → 0.77 Regression on hurd-i386 - exec-12.1 test fails

[OdyX]

Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/873049

The 0.77 upload to Debian has revealed that this version has regressed on the hurd-i386 architecture, see https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=jimtcl&arch=hurd-i386

  exec-12.1 ERR reaping background processes
  At      : exec.test:347
  Expected: '0'
  Got     : 'child'
  
         exec.test: Total    76   Passed    75  Skipped     0  Failed     1
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  FAILED: 1
  	exec.test:347	exec-12.1
  [...]
  =========================================================================
            Totals: Total  4722   Passed  4503  Skipped   218  Failed     1

I'm happy to help getting that fixed (I can get access to hurd-i386 developer machines) if you have patches.

[msteveb]

Thanks for the report. This seems to be a minor issue in the test where fgrep is implemented as 'grep -E'. The test can be fixed by changing "fgrep -v fgrep" to "fgrep -v grep". I'll push this fix to master, but you can make a patch for this if you want.

[OdyX]

Thank you very much. Unfortunately, this was not enough to fix the hurd-i386 FTBFS:

exec-3.3 ERR redirecting output to file
At      : exec.test:101
Expected: 'rc=ok return result=Different simple words'
Got     : 'rc=error result=child killed by signal SIGPIPE'

exec-9.7 ERR commands returning errors
At      : exec.test:254
Expected: '0 {error msg 1
error msg 2}'
Got     : '0 {error msg 1}'

exec-12.1 ERR reaping background processes
At      : exec.test:347
Expected: '0'
Got     : 'child'

       exec.test: Total    76   Passed    73  Skipped     0  Failed     3
------------------------------------------------------------
FAILED: 3
	exec.test:101	exec-3.3
	exec.test:254	exec-9.7
	exec.test:347	exec-12.1
------------------------------------------------------------

build log

[msteveb]

I don't know what's going on there. I see two additional tests have failed with no changes.
I went to the trouble of install hurd in a VM. This version:

root@debian:/tmp# uname -a
GNU debian 0.9 GNU-Mach 1.8+git20170609-486/Hurd-0.9 i686-AT386 GNU
root@debian:/tmp# cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Hurd 9 \n \l

I can't get any of those tests to fail.

[msteveb]

I'll need some more information in order to fix this, otherwise I will close this ticket.

[msteveb]

Closing as no further information is available. Feel free to reopen if you have more details.