For clarity this is triggered by the kernel sometimes exposing an EIO where we are expecting EOF. This tickles an issue with libnih which accumulates input in a read until EAGAIN loop, and dumps (arguably erroneously) its entire pending buffer when it sees an unexpected error.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1429756 Title: FTBFS: upstart test_job_process fails in majority of cases / Kernel returning unexpected EIO at near of file Status in linux package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in upstart package in Ubuntu: New Status in linux source package in Vivid: In Progress Status in upstart source package in Vivid: New Bug description: As you see in the history in https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/job/vivid- adt-upstart/?, upstart's test fail almost all the time, on ok 53 - with single line command writing fast and exiting not ok 54 - with single line command writing lots of data fast and exiting wrong value for bytes, expected 3145728 got 3018027 at tests/test_job_process.c:3886 (test_start). 1..153 FAIL: test_job_process Sometimes they succeed on one architecture, and with lots of luck on both, but this is way too flaky to be an useful test. This keeps blocking the propagation of other packages from -proposed. This was most likely triggered by the kernel update from 3.18 to 3.19. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1429756/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp