Bug#666631: libsystem-command-perl: FTBFS: tests failed

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 03/04/12 at 22:47 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> tag 666631 - unreproducible
> thanks
> 
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 04:06:21PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > tag 666631 + unreproducible
> > thanks
> > 
> > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:48:42 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > 
> > > During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
> > > amd64.
> > 
> > Builds fine here (amd64 + i386 sid cowbuilder chroot).
> 
> I can reproduce this by loading the build host during the test suite.
> 
> It looks like the test assumes that in a sequence of
> 
>  $SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE';
>  waitpid($pid, 0)
>  kill 0, $pid

Hi,

Since I'm now using virtual machines (on Amazon EC2) for my rebuilds,
it's possible that such timing-dependant problems are more frequent.
However, I confirm that I could reproduce the problem even on a VM with
no other build running. And apparently it fails every time for me.

Lucas