Re: Git self test failure on Solaris 11.3

[Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>]

[forwarding to the Git list]

On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 6:23 AM Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 5:09 AM Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm catching a self test failure on Solaris 11.3. Git 2.21 from sources.
> >
> > ok 8 - check normal git operations: two packs
> > ok 9 - add more packs
> > ok 10 - check normal git operations: mixed mode (two packs + extra)
> > ok 11 - write midx with twelve packs
> > not ok 12 - check normal git operations: twelve packs
> > #
> > #                       midx_git_two_modes "rev-list --objects --all" &&
> > #                       midx_git_two_modes "log --raw" &&
> > #                       midx_git_two_modes "count-objects --verbose" &&
> > #                       midx_git_two_modes "cat-file
> > --batch-all-objects --buffer --batch-check" &&
> > #                       midx_git_two_modes "cat-file
> > --batch-all-objects --buffer --batch-check --unsorted" sorted
> > #
> > ok 13 - verify multi-pack-index success
> > ok 14 - verify bad signature
> > ok 15 - verify bad version
> > ...
>
> Ick, this is bad. Intermittent failure. The second time around it passed.

Jeff Walton reported this to me privately. I'm not familiar with this
code and don't have time presently to investigate it, so I'm
forwarding it to the list in the hope that someone who knows the code
intimately (Stolee) or someone who has touched this code (Peff) might
have some idea about it. The failure is intermittent, so perhaps the
output of some command is not stable sort-wise(?).